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Ladies and gentlemen, coming. Our topic today is medicare, the largest care player in the american, a huge growing federal entitlement. And a little more than ten years, medicare will increase in enrollment from 65 million to nearly 80 million enrollees and total Program Spending will double today, roughly. Its 1 trillion. And within ten years it will be nearly 2 trillion. At the same time, medicare is changing. Today, half of all seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or a system of private coverage, which is the alternative to traditional medicare. And Medicare Advantage is a defined contribution. And what that means is, is that the government makes a contribution on behalf of a beneficiary to the beneficiary chosen plan. Given current trends, Medica ....
Largest care player in the american, a huge growing federal entitlement. And a little more than ten years, medicare will increase in enrollment from 65 million to nearly 80 million enrollees and total Program Spending will double today, roughly. Its 1 trillion. And within ten years it will be nearly 2 trillion. At the same time, medicare is changing. Today, half of all seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage or a system of private coverage, which is the alternative to traditional medicare. And Medicare Advantage is a defined contribution. And what that means is, is that the government makes a contribution on behalf of a beneficiary to the beneficiary chosen plan. Given current trends, Medicare Advantage will soon be the dominant form of medicare. Th ....
And so forth. The bigger shock was that nsa ininuded its intelligence haul netanyahus private communications with members of congress 3 and american citizens. This isnt just ungentlemanly. Or simply a violation of the separation of the legislative and executive branches. Its unconstitutional. Its illegal. Federal law explicitlylyforbids the government from spying on its citizens. No president has the authority to waive the law. The constitution requires the president to enforce the law. The other troubling aspect is the reaction of many members of congress. Theyre comfortable with nsa conducting widespread collection of citizen communications. But theyre outraged upon n learning theyve been spied upon. These politicians arent loyal to the constitution. Theyre okay violations of federal law. Just as long as theyre exempt s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s ps s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s ....
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Chaffetz heads the House Oversight committee. He says the irs exempts the nations 1. 5 million nonprofits from income taxes because of their philanthroanpic missions. Not to pad executives fat salaries. Why do you think these groups that want to pay executives so much, or feel that they need to, structure themselves as nonprofits . Rep. Chaffetz oh, it can save them millions. Untold millionons of dollars are saved and not paid into the federal treasury by structuring as a not for profit organization. I think a lot of people would be surprised by how much money the executives are bringing home putting in their own pocket. Sharyl experts estimate the nfls nonprofit status cost taxpayers over 15 million in lost tax revenue its most recent tax filing year, 100 million in the past decade. Chaffetz raised the issue of dour away the testimony chaffetz raised the issue of exorbitant nonprofit salaries last september at a fiery hearing in ....