Without it, according to the Census, the number of poor elderly would have quintupled in 2010.
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第三,提高老年医疗保障的效率能够确保有更多的税金直接用于老年人的医疗,而非充实保险公司的腰包。
Third, by making Medicare more efficient, we'll be able to ensure that more tax dollars go directly to caring for seniors instead of enriching insurance companies.
His budget also chops at Medicare, the government's health plan for the old, cutting payments to providers and making richer old folk pay higher insurance premiums.