THE BABY BOOMERS IMPACT ON MEDICARE

The Baby Boomers Impact on Medicare

[George Ehioba]

[Keller Graduate School]

The Baby Boomers Impact on Medicare

Introduction

A baby boomer is described to be those individuals who were born during the Post-World War II. The term "baby boomer" is used in a cultural setting, and is used to refer to an individual who was born during the post-WWII baby boom. Various individuals, groups, organizations and scholars have different opinions on what comprises the group of baby boomers technically and culturally.

The Baby Boomers Impact on Medicare

As a whole, baby boomers are considered to have a relationship with the redefinition or rejection of traditional values although other people debated how wide does that rejection extend to considering the continuous diversity of values between old and young generations. In continents such as Europe and North America, they consider individuals to belong and be tagged as kid boomer due to privileges enjoyed since during that time, many have grown and got use to affluence. They are considered to be the wealthiest and yet the healthiest generation during that time. They are also the group that is considered to grow up frankly expecting the improvement of the world as time passes by.

One unique feature of a boomer is that they tend to think and consider themselves as the special generation wherein they are unique from those before them. During the 1960's, the relative growth of teenagers and young adults is extending and that they themselves put up a rhetoric that encloses their unit as well as the change they were about to bring. This oratory had brought about an essential impact towards the perceptions of the baby boomers and their inclination on defining the world by generations.

Baby boom have been described as a "shockwave" as well as being "the pig in the python" due to their full force in terms of their numbers that had caused society to remodel itself in the standards of the boomers. Individuals who belong to this group also are worried to their health specifically to the medical care and services that could be deprived of them because of Medicare budget cuts. Usually, boomers go to assisted living homes or centers, nursing homes or others would transfer to another location or go back home. During the period when they are in nursery homes or assisted living homes they are given free services like cancer screenings, heightening the exposure of the children on policies and funding all states to improve the community services. They can also be visited by their loved ones in homes from time to time. Ninety-three percent of people aged 45 to 54 are concerned about access to care, both now and when they become Medicare beneficiaries.

The majority of respondents to a recent AMA survey believe that Medicare beneficiaries will have difficulty accessing care if physician fees are cut as planned for 2007. “Seven out of 10 Americans are not aware of impending Medicare physician payment cuts, but when told about the cuts, 86 percent are concerned that ...