Geezers won't need Medicare Advantage anyway under our system ... after they are taken care of by rationing and death panels
Posted on 11/21/2010 5:40:37 AM PST by Zakeet
Today's Wall Street Journal reports:
Seniors enrolling in private Medicare policies starting this week are finding fewer options, as health insurers close down certain types of plans due to legislative changes and looming cuts to federal funding.Cigna Corp., Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, several Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and others aren't renewing hundreds of Medicare Advantage plans, which are Medicare policies administered by private insurers. The moves will displace some 700,000 beneficiaries who must find new policies, according to Humana Inc., a large seller of Advantage plans.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that Medicare Advantage funding would be cut by more than a quarter of a trillion dollars ($254 billion) in Obamacare's real first decade (2014 to 2023), which amounts to cuts of about $25,000 for each of the roughly 10 million Medicare Advantage beneficiaries. Those cuts wouldn't be made if Obamacare is repealed in January of 2013, but $8 billion will be cut by the end of 2012. These Medicare cuts -- both the $8 billion and the $254 billion -- wouldn't be used to make Medicare more solvent over the long haul, but would instead be spent on Obamacare.
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Geezers won't need Medicare Advantage anyway under our system ... after they are taken care of by rationing and death panels
(to the tune of kumbaya)
Hope and Change, my lord, hope and change.
Hope and change, my lord, hope and change...
I hope they all remember this when they vote in 2012.
The Israeli's aren't the only ones whose motto is, "NEVER FORGET".
How did a pension and free medical care become a right?
Whether or not Obamacare passed, Medicare would have to be cut. It’s unsustainable. There’s not enough money without raising payroll taxes significantly which will harm younger workers and the middle class. Of course, that’s the Obama plan all along - to make us all slaves to big gubmint.
All Medicare Medicaid will go away when it comes to them being forced to choose between paying pensions for federal and state employees over medical care for geezers.
Sad but true.
Stand back - you're about to get kneecapped. Medicare is a sacred cow to many who claim to be conservative.
Only in the mind of a moron without a lick of economic sense.
Or a dreamer, who will believe anything coming out of Congress.
To all LIB/DIM geezers: Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
The idiocy of all this is that Medicare Advantage is the only part of Medicare that made even a whisper of sense. By having private companies administer the plan, rather than the federal government, beneficiaries were forced to participate in managed care. A very small step towards controlling costs-—no wonder the Democrats wanted to end it.
Obamacare and Taxes: The Final Tab (ATR.org)
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Not to be forgotten, this part of the Stimulus bill that CONTROLs doctors has to be removed too!
Dr. David Janda explains rationing and why
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Bump.
According to the WSJ it’s a $8+ TRILLION gut over 20 years.
Most of them probably voted for “Free health care”, a/k/a a vote for obama in 2008. If thet were that stupid, they will fall for the then Democrat line of “The Republicans want to get rid of your “free health care”.
” All Medicare Medicaid will go away when it comes to them being forced to choose between paying pensions for federal and state employee UNIONS over medical care for geezers.
Sad but true.”
.... there, I fixed it
No it doesn't. All you have to do is give existing seniors flexible benefit cards that pay for routine and moderate health care procedures, and prescription drugs, and let the government underwrite catastrophic and end-of-life plans which would be managed by private insurance.
Younger workers can have the option of opting out of Medicare.
Problem solved.
Sad but true.
And ten's of millions will die within 5 years
In the US alone
Hospitals, Medical clinics, Nursing homes, “Special Needs” units
Will all collapse from funding losses
Rioting in the streets
Widespread despair
It will not be “Pretty”
Do we get to opt out of paying for Fedzilla's underwriting of Medicare too?
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