Chief Medicare Actuary At HHS Reports Senate Obamacare Will Make Health RISE

The Lid/Centers for Medicare and Medicaid/The Hill ^ | 1/9/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

President Obama has said it over and over, health care reform was needed reduce the cost of health care and to bring federal spending under control. Not so fast Mr President. Richard Foster, the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid,a division of the Department of the Health and Human Services just released a study predicting overall spending on health care would rise by a total of $222 billion dollars over the next decade as a result of the House health care bill passed at the end of December. Foster also says the senate plan will drive health provider out of medicare making it harder for plan participants to find a doctor (his full report is embedded at the bottom of this post)

[TribalPrincess2U]

Everything Obama and his cult does multiplies cost three-fold.

Ekkkkkkkkkkkk!

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[Mike Darancette]

The Senate plan purports to achieve $483 billion in Medicare savings over the next 10 years, including $118 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage plans, a program favored by Republicans that distributes Medicare benefits through private providers.

If Medicare Advantage is so favored by Republicans then why is the only part of the country exempt from Medicare Advantage cuts is in a very heavily Democrat area of Floriduh? Medicare Advantage is favored by lots of folks.

[Vaduz]

reform was needed reduce the cost of health care and to bring federal spending under.
Sound like the used cars saleman who sold me a car he said it was only drove on sundays by a little old lady,what he didn’t say was it was at a drag strip.I’d what people don’t say that counts.