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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

More about how predicted future Medicare outlays keep going down. CBO projection from 2009, actual through 2022, current projection — some wonky stuff in 2023 involving treatment of receipts, but as you can see catastrophic predictions have been revised way down 1/ https://t.co/qzY9E0xB5P — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 19, 2023

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And one more update, to show how hard it is to project future medical costs — which are the main source of budget doom and gloom. CBO provides spreadsheets on budget projections going back to 2009. Here's how the Medicare projection has changed 10/ https://t.co/Gon3aNrcwk — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 18, 2023

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Good reasons to believe that there will be more downward revisions — and not just bc of slowing medical costs. Demographic projections assume a rise in life expectancy at 65 that's becoming questionable 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 19, 2023