1. What Should Be Done About Medicare? Part I Ideas Changing the World John C. Goodman National Center for Policy Analysis

2. Medicare’s Taxpayer Burden

3. Medicare Unfunded Liabilities $38T $23T Before PPACA After PPACA 75-Year Horizon

4. Medicare Unfunded Liabilities $89T $37T Before PPACA After PPACA

5. Medicare Payments to Doctors and Hospitals

6. Medicare Spending from the 2010 Trustees Report as a Percent of Spending from the 2009 Trustees Report Drugs Doctors Hospitals

7. Annual Reduction in Medicare Benefits Per Person Under the Affordable Care Act (2010 dollars) 2020203020402050

8. Medicare Benefits Lost Due to the Affordable Care Act (present value at age 65) Age 65Age 55 Age 45

9. Medicare Benefits as a Percent of Contributions* $2.69 $1.80 $1.26 $1.06 95¢ 88¢ 75¢ Age 85756550453525 * Premiums and payroll taxes and income taxes.

10. Medicare’s Taxpayer Burden

11. Ideas Changing the World