Posted on 09/09/2010 5:23:18 PM PDT by rhema
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has attacked Senate Republican candidates for wanting "to end Medicare as we know it." And in Nevada's hotly contested Senate race, Majority Leader Harry Reid is attacking Republican Sharron Angle, saying she wants to "gut" Medicare. But Mr. Reid has already gutted it. He and his colleagues did so by passing ObamaCare.
In his analysis accompanying the recently released Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees, Richard Foster, Medicare's chief actuary, noted that Medicare payment rates for doctors and hospitals serving seniors will be cut by 30% over the next three years. Under the policies of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, by 2019 Medicare payment rates will be lower than under Medicaid. Mr. Foster notes that by the end of the 75-year projection period in the Annual Medicare Trustees Report, Medicare payment rates will be one-third of what will be paid by private insurance, and only half of what is paid by Medicaid.
Altogether, ObamaCare cuts $818 billion from Medicare Part A (hospital insurance) from 2014-2023, the first 10 years of its full implementation, and $3.2 trillion over the first 20 years, 2014-2033. Adding in ObamaCare cuts for Medicare Part B (physicians fees and other services) brings the total cut to $1.05 trillion over the first 10 years and $4.95 trillion over the first 20 years.
These draconian cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers that serve America's seniors were the basis for the Congressional Budget Office's official "score"—repeatedly cited by the president—that the health-reform legislation would actually reduce the federal deficit. But Mr. Obama never disclosed how that deficit reduction would actually be achieved.
There will be additional cuts under ObamaCare to Medicare Advantage, the private option to Medicare that close to one-fourth of all seniors
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See: Cloward-Piven Strategy for a complete explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward–Piven_strategy
I think the goal is “medicare for all” and/or “single payer” health insurance. Of course after single payer ets in the next song we start to hear id one for Great Britain style socialized medecine to go with socialized insurance.
Houston has one of the finest medical centers in the world...largely built with charitable donations from the estates of the wealthy .
Who will donate to build a hospital under ObamaCare?
Who will leave their estate to a government run medical
system?
Other medical facilities around the country:
Shriners Hospitals
Duke Medical
Countless Catholic hospitals
how many more?
Death panels - depopulation of America's elderly courtesy of Obama himself
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Tuesday in my 65th so I guess I become a target that day for (o)bama and his band of islamic barbarians.
Or the GOP guts Medicare
Or there will be massive tax increases to pay for it
Or we drive the program until the wheels come off.
The demographics are unavoidable - there ain't no free lunch.
Part B Medicare payments to Doctors have already been cutSo ... what did the Doc do? .. simple, raise the cost for an office visit!Last year CMS paid 80% for an office visit to my Doctor.
NOW the &%#$@ers at CMS only pay 50%.
It now 'costs me' more to go see my Family Dr, a General Practitioner, than it does when I go to see my Orthopedic Surgeon for a Cortisone shot. 'SERIES', the office visit cost for the Specialist is now less than for a GP, go figure that one out!?!
The money that pays for your care is being paid, this year, by taxpayers who are in the workforce.
And those taxpayers are going to have to pay more and more and more, every year, for you to receive those services.
So perhaps you might want to turn down the "how dare they cut MY benefits" sense of entitlement just a notch or two, mmkay??.
By the way, I'm looking at my 57th birthday this year....
Wrong. Medicare isn't welfare. Medicaid is the 'welfare' health insurance.
Medicare is just like Health Insurance and it has premiums due each month. So I pay for that Medicare 'Insurance' every month as does everyone whose on it. And I've paid for that Medicare coverage since its inception.
And no one is paying for me. To think that is to think anyone with Health Insurance is being supported by others. If you have Blue Cross and pay 'x' dollars a month then have a Surgery that costs $140k, its the other in your Insurance Plan (Company) that picks up the remaining portion (+/-20%, or $28,000) of your costs with their premiums. Medicare is the same.
I don't get where people got the idea that 'Medicare is free'? People on it pay and pay more out of pocket than those with regular insurance. And again, they've paid for it their whole working lives. Payments don't stop when you retire.
Again, Medicare is not Medicaid.
Already this is affecting my 72 year old mother. Just a few months ago, she had no co-pay when she went to her doctor but now she has to pay $40.
In 2033, I’ll be almost 100 years old.
That’s the year they start throwing us off cliffs.
So, how about if we “old guys and gals” get off our sorry azzes and make sure all of our friends and relatives are made aware of socialist obama, his policies, his death panels/RATIONING!,that they are registered to vote, and are aware of the conservatives up for election, that they receive the transportation they need to get to and from the polls. This is the election of our lifetime, and at this stage of our lives, we either take this socialist in the White House DOWN, or he takes US down.
Wrong.
The minute you try to collect some of the “benefits” that you paid for over your entire working life, off the cliff you go!
And that may be better than the alternative, when somebody figures out that you’re just as dead with the pills as without them, and they can save a dollar if they withhold them.
And the problem with that is what??? No one ever gave me freebie medical visits, procedures, medicines etc. Always had to pay up.
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