Posted on 06/12/2013 7:57:36 AM PDT by Zakeet
You may have heard that White House tours were cut due to across-the-board federal spending cuts known as the sequester. Or that Congress made sure to minimize disruptions to air travel. Or perhaps you know someone being furloughed as a result of the cuts.
But did you know a major fight is being waged over sequester cuts to some cancer drugs?
After Congress failed to pass a budget this spring, a 2 percent cut to Medicare chemotherapy drug reimbursements went into effect April 1 as part of the across-the-board federal spending cuts designed to save $85.4 billion this year.
Many doctors and patients are infuriated, and the issue has made its way into Congress, with a bill introduced in the House to help alleviate the burden being put on those in the cancer community.
Dr. John Cox, a community oncologist at Texas Oncology Methodist Cancer Centers in Dallas and a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), told Yahoo News that the idea of treating Medicare patients differently from other patients goes against everything for which doctors stand.
"It makes all of us uneasy when we realize we are treating different populations in our practice differently," Cox said.
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What's the big deal ... we can't print enough to pay for everything ... you stupid taxpayers are tapped out ... the geezers are going to die in the near future anyway ... especially the ones with cancer ... and so the IRS death panels are just doing what needs to be done!
Why does the wookie always look like obama just passed gas by her?
In other words...fewer illegal aliens without insurance are getting the most expensive drugs to keep them pooping in the fields. Boo freakin hoo.
So a REDUCTION in the RATE of GROWTH is going to kill everyone?? Why do so-called “news” agencies still LIE?? or are they just plain Stupid??
sequester “cuts” ... still?
I thought everyone figured out there were no actual “cuts” only a 1.8 percent smaller increase?
That’s a man, baby.
It’s not just cancer patients. My durable equipment (oxygen concentrators) which I cannot live without has been affected. When my husband had terminal cancer and we had no supplement insurance, we cut, cut, cut our expense’s so that he could have the expensive drugs. There is so many expendable expenses in the government that could just go away, and give these patients an medical a break.
If I had that hideous thing around my neck, I'd have a similar expression. Why the left thinks she's such a fashion icon is beyond me.
There’s a lot of upside to the Death Panels. Especially for the financials of Medicare and SocSec.
When the millenials squawk about grandma croaking, the libs will offer up some student loan forgiveness as compensation.
Wow
Mochelle looks like she’s read for a starring role in La Cage Aux Folles!!
read = ready
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