He’s out of Cook County, IL. This is their type of trick. They breed ‘em extra dumb there.
My Dec 20, 2009 Letter to the Editor of the Charlotte Observer:
Has Anyone READ this bill?
Section 3209 of the Senate Health Care Bill allows the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to bar senior citizens from purchasing private fee-for-service Medicare Advantage plans.
The bill also provides for a 15-member unelected “Independent Medicare Advisory Board,” given the task of ensuring Medicare expenditures meet budget goals. Should Medicare growth rates exceed these goals, the Board is required to act to reduce the shortfall.
Additionally, the Department of Health and Human Services would contract with an “entity” that is to “develop and identify consensus-based standards to evaluate patient decision aids for preference sensitive care. Grants and contracts would be awarded to develop these “patient decision aids”.
So we can’t pay for care we deem necessary and the government will spend tax dollars on grants to develop aids to convince us we are too old to want such care.