Does Obamacare Take Away From Medicare? 
While most government officials will claim Obamacare takes nothing from Medicare or senior health benefits , when the last was passed , the Obama administration arbitrarily claimed costs during the first 10 years would be less than $ 1 trillion dollars . One of the ways that the CBO came to this estimate was planned cuts of $ 700 billion in Medicare pending during that same 10-year period , despite the fact that Medicare will have more members than ever . Whether CMS can possibly provide coverage for more seniors while saving $ 700 billion remains to be seen , but the reality of the situation is those savings seem highly unlikely , if not utterly impossible . 