A Boehner-Pelosi prescription for Medicare doc fixes

Politico ^ | March 16, 2015 | Jennifer Haberkorn and David Rogers

[C19fan]

In a rare display of bipartisanship, House leaders are actively pursuing a deal to permanently change the way Medicare pays doctors and to extend a children’s health program for two years. The estimated $200 billion package could be introduced as soon as this week by House committees responsible for health care policy. Both Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are personally involved to the point that Pelosi reached out to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and Boehner has spoken to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in recent days.

[C19fan]

Why did we bother voting these clowns in? ObamaCare was sold to the public by claiming it would lower the deficit. One of the major sources of "savings" was the CBO was ordered to score ObamaCare as if the Doctor Fix, preventing cuts in Medicare reimbursement rates, would disappear thereby reducing spending on Medicare. The AMA and Hospital lobby supported ObamaCare knowing this lie was being used to sell it to the public. Now these same groups are whining the cuts in Medicare reimbursement they implicitly supported are actually going to happen. So they get Boeher and the GOPe leadership to write them a check for $200 billion. A real leader would of told them to pound sand and tell them if they want their money they need to support repealing ObamaCare. Make them sleep in the bed they made.

[Slambat]

“In a rare display of bipartisanship,”

“Both Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) are personally involved to the point that Pelosi reached out to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), and Boehner has spoken to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in recent days.”

Four lying democrats, two of which are posing republican frauds, is not bipartisanship.

[Arm_Bears]

In a rare display of bipartisanship. . .

Translation: Boner sells-out again.

[Jim Noble]

In case you don’t know, here’s the cause of this mess:

In 1997, a GOP Congress passed a Medicare bill creating another imaginary Federal number, the “Sustainable Growth Rate”. The SGR law said that the total of all payments to physicians (regardless of work done or specialty, and regardless of demand) could not rise more than the rise in GDP, and if it did, payments the next year had to be cut by the amount over the limit. Physicians would not be allowed to increase charges to offset the cut. Congress allowed itself to “postpone” but not eliminate the cut, and they have postponed the cuts for eighteen years.

Of course, a doctor in a primary care office in rural New Hampshire has nothing to do with, and cannot influence, the practice patterns of ophthalmologists in Miami.

Eighteen years of “postponed” cuts have now added up to a cut so large that it would put most physicians out of business if implemented.

[Jim Noble]

if they want their money they need to support repealing ObamaCare. Make them sleep in the bed they made

17% of the doctors belong to the AMA, and a lot of them are employees whose employers pay the dues.

Devastating adult primary care practices in rural America because they have failed to control interventional radiologists in California and eye surgeons in Miami is a bad plan, whatever you call it.

[Yogafist]

Not to worry. Conservatives (so called) in the HOR will all vote against it, letting Boehner pass it with largely Democrat support. Then they will wail, and moan, and send out emails telling us how angry they are, oh, and asking us to send a donation to help them “Stop” Obama. Then they will gallantly move on to the next issue to violate their campaign promises, and the process will repeat.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Boehner is more of a dem than most dems.