How much did the United States spend on Medicare in 2003?
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According to the annual report of the Medicare Trustees, expenditures in Medicare in FY 2003 totalled $280.8 billion. The federal fiscal year is from October 1, 2002 to Sept. 30, 2003. The annual report with 2003 information in it was issued in 2004.\n\nYou can review the budget document and the entire Medicare Trustees' Report at this site: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/Reports TrustFunds/downloads/tr2004.pdf\n\nIn researching this question, I learned that $330 billion was expended on Medicare in FY 2005. How about that!\n\nAnother site with good quality informaton on federal budget issues I've found is the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. This group is based in Washington, D. C.\n\nHope this helps!  Best wishes!
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works great , before there was no medicare drug plan at all.  why getting your drugs for 10 to 30 dollars is a bad thing is beyond me to people.\n\nMy mother has it and it is saving her thousands of dollars a year.
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www.medicare.gov\np.s. medicare is federal, not state...
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It was about 4%. I can't say about Connecticut but I'm sure it wasn't far from the national numbers. You have to remember this calculation is based on an assumed average group of purchases/expenditures and doesn't reflect exactly what each individual does.
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What would you like to do.  Do we need to turn ALL medical services over to the government?  Set everything at standardized prices, just like an oil change on your car, and take away the options of which doctor you go to, and what therapies you want used on your illnesses?  Medicine BECAME expensive with the advent of Medicare and health insurance. My mother in law was a nurse for 30 years, and she can tell you exactly when medical services went up.  It came about with the proliferation of medical insurance companies, and the liberal minded society that rewards people (and their attorneys) for being victims of "medical malpractice".  Oh, and if we centralize medical and health care within the government, you will not be able to go back if you do get stuck with a shitty doctor who completely fucks you up and sue them.
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If you're looking for facts, as opposed to the guessing above and the ignorant gasbaggery below, according to the National Coalition on Health Care, in 2003 approximately 27 million workers were without health insurance.  45 million is the total number of Americans who do not have health insurance.
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Health and Human Services (Which includes Urban Development, and Welfare) comes in at number one with a yearly projected budget of 650 Billion Dollars. Department of Defense is number two with a projected budget of around 515 Billion Dollars, and the Treasury Department is number 3 with a projected budget of 415 Billion Dollars (mostly due to the interest we pay on the national debt.)\n\nThe next largest after that is a huge drop with the Department of Agriculture with a projected budget of around 90 Billion.\n\n\nPlease Note that Social Security is not part of the Federal Budget general fund. It is a separate account and has its own source of income. As a comparison though, Social Security has an estimated budget of 500 Billion. \n\nFission
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So far the American Government has spent $275 BILLION dollors on the War in Iraq!\n\nApproximately:\n28.5% of your Federal Taxes go to the military, that was in 2005. I can imagine now it's like 35%.\n\nBut, the American Army can kill the Chinese, if we let our Army rebuild, and give it some time. We can end them communists!
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bought prescription drugs for americans.
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People want to cut defense spending, I think, because they have no concept of what the Federal Budget actually looks like.  The 2007 budget is slated to spend about 17% on defense, while spending about 58% on entitlements and about 9% on interest on the debt.  We could cut military spending all day and it would hardly dent the budget.  We need to cut spending on entitlements (medicare, social security, medicaid, welfare) to get the budget and spending under control.\n\nIf you look at US military spending as a percentage of GDP, it is just about at an all-time recent low at 3.7% in 2003.  This is very low.  The USSR spent between 15% - 17% of it's GDP on the military in the mid 80's.
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it actually save the US money because they no longer need to collect social security. as far as "cost the US" since there is no universal health care in the US that expression is moot.
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I think for any programs we need to be careful.  We are only 1/10 the population of the US, and thus we only have 1/10 of the amount of money to spend.\n\nWe should look at how much we fund on a per capita basis not compare ourselves to other countries.
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it's more then $500 billion. While Congress has allocated over $250 billion in direct spending, large amounts of equipment, hazard pay, death payments, massive healthcare costs, and opportunity costs and basic loan interest to pay for all of that could easily top $600 to $1 trillion when the books come.
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> 250 million in February 2003
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YEAH. also cut corprate taxes by 2% and drasticly increased military spending to 5.4billion over 5 years. Sounds like  americas budget
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H.R. 2473, the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act of 2003, was introduced by Representative William M. Thomas (R-CA) on June 16, 2003. On June 17, the bill was reported out of the House Committee on Ways and Means by a vote of 25 to 15. On June 19, it was passed by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 29 to 20. H.R. 2473 was redesignated as H.R. 1, which was sponsored by Representative J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL). H.R. 1 passed the House by a vote of 216 to 215 on June 27. The Senate passed H.R. 1, as amended, by unanimous consent on July 7. A conference committee was appointed, and it reported out House Conference Report 108-391. The House passed the conference report on November 22 by a vote of 220 to 215, and the Senate passed the report on November 25 by a vote of 54 to 44. The measure was signed by the President as P.L. 108-173 on December 8.
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It's not a complete answer, but see Table 694 in the Stat Abs US, 2004.