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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Projections of rising costs depend in large part not on hard truths about demography but on *assumed* increases in health spending. Recent history doesn't support that pessimism on health costs; in fact, CBO has drastically reduced its own projections 2/ https://t.co/77pjAMYFk7 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 21, 2023

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

So we're getting the usual suspects showing up to say that Medicare and Social Security can't possibly remain as they are. I should have a newsletter about all this later today; but here's the key chart from CBO 1/ https://t.co/rPbHbeOQA0 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 21, 2023

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And if you really worry about deficits, as opposed to wanting reasons to kill social insurance, you should be asking how America — which has incredibly high health costs — can bring them down 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 21, 2023