Friday, February 15, 2013

US Debt Reduction Sequester Spending Solution #9: Lower Medicare Benefits For Those With High Non-Retirement Net Asset Accumulations

My recommendation here is that any individual who has a total fair value of all his non-retirement net assets of between $5 mil and $10 mil at the end of any year gets his Medicare Benefits reduced in the following year.  This Medicare Benefit reduction includes among other items higher copays, higher deductibles, and higher medicare government insurance premiums.

And for any individual who has a total fair value of all his non-retirement net assets of $10 mil or more at the end of any year gets his Medicare Benefits reduced by significantly more in the following year than one with total assets of between $5 mil and $10 mil.  This Medicare Benefit reduction includes among other items even much higher copays, even much higher deductibles, and even much higher medicare government insurance premiums.

Given the $16 trillion of US Debt, this is a fair and wise way to reduce US Government spending.