Feb 14, 2008 ... Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may differ (slightly) on health-care policy reform, but at least they agree on how to pay for it. At a December debate in Iowa, Obama announced that "if we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars." We might ...
Oct 11, 2017 ... “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.” 66. “John wasn't this raging populist four years ago” when he ran for president. 67. “Right now, an employer has more of a chance of getting hit by lightning than be prosecuted for hiring an ...
FactCheck: Reducing obesity would save $18B, not $1T. Obama used an estimate of uncertain provenance when discussing Medicare savings, saying “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.” Obama got this claim from a “candidate briefin book” put out ...
May 1, 2012 ... Since 1970, health care spending per capita has grown at an average annual rate of 8.2% or 2.4 percentage points faster than nominal GDP. ... higher than in the next highest spending country (Switzerland), and about 90% higher than in many other countries that we would consider global competitors.
OBAMA: in Medicare, what we did was we said, we are going to have to bring down the costs if we're going to deal with our long-term deficits, but to do that, let's look ...... when discussing Medicare savings, saying “If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.
If we went back to the obesity rates that existed in 1980, that would save the Medicare system a trillion dollars.