{"id":3052,"date":"2010-05-03T11:22:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2010-05-03T11:25:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T19:25:51","slug":"800-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=3052","title":{"rendered":"800 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In exactly 800 days I will be eligible for the <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/politics\/the-medicare-buffet\" target=\"_self\"><strong>medicare buffet<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 I and about 3 million others will become eligible in 2012. \u00a0 My hip is starting to hurt but I can wait and so can the rest of my cohort.\u00a0 But rest assured that we will all be lining up for new knees and hips. <a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/politics\/the-medicare-buffet\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Read more <\/strong><\/a>or click on my official countdown counter to the right of the simonburrow.com\/ home page.<\/p>\n<p>So lets do the math.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costhelper.com\/cost\/health\/knee-replacement.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Knee replacement surgery costs<\/strong><\/a> about $30,000 and <a href=\"http:\/\/orthoinfo.aaos.org\/topic.cfm?topic=a00389\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>about a million<\/strong><\/a> of us will need at least one hip or knee in the next few years.\u00a0 That comes to<strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thirty Billion Dollars <\/span><\/strong> just for the orthopedic needs of people born in 1947.<\/p>\n<p>What can you do about it?\u00a0 If you are looking for a career go into the orthopedic supply business.\u00a0 If you are an investor buy stock in the companies that supply this industry.\u00a0 If you are a taxpayer hang on it is going to be a rough ride.<\/p>\n<p>BTW It might be a good idea to let in a lot more immigrants to help pay for all of the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In exactly 800 days I will be eligible for the medicare buffet.\u00a0 I and about 3 million others will become eligible in 2012. \u00a0 My hip is starting to hurt but I can wait and so can the rest of my cohort.\u00a0 But rest assured that we will all be lining up for new knees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","tag-medicare"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-Ne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}