Rising Numbers Of Alzheimer’s Patients Could Bankrupt Medicare

That doesn’t even take into account proposals from Republican leadership, led by House Speaker Paul Ryan, to privatize ? aka cut back ? Medicare. The GOP’s new health care plan, unveiled Monday, would repeal the Affordable Care Act’s taxes on high-income households and the health care industry whose revenue is funneled toward Medicare. According to the Brookings Institute, such tax cuts would exhaust the Medicare trust fund in just seven years.