In this article David Cutler puts forward the idea and that Health care reform in the United Stated needs to take place because there is a crisis looming in the future. From an American perspective he suggests that older people uses more Medicare dollars than any other age group in society. Also that health care cost in general have risen between 25 to 50 percent in a ten-year period. Due to the population aging and increased cost …
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…to be considered when thinking of cuts. However, his over all approach seems to be cut funding and insurance to those that utilizes the system the most. To me this seems to be a very dangerous solution. Charging seniors significantly more for health care could really add have a very negative consequence. There should have been more research done to see what effect these ideas for cuts and reallocation would really have on a society.