Bush to Seek Cuts in Medicaid, Benefits

Ass Press via Yahoo!News ^ | January 21, 2005 | ALAN FRAM

[Kaslin]

Not that it isn't a good idea but a lot of this looks like pure speculation to me by the liberal media

[Sonny M]

About damn time.

But I'll believe it when I see it.

[carlr]

Hopefully this will extend to the other elements of socialized medicine.
New Yorks child and family health plus(I think that is the official name of the program)has just about bankrupted the upstate counties.
The law of unintended consequences always happens as some employees and employers reportedly discontinued insurance to go on the program.

[OldFriend]

When I hear some old geezer talking about how her free health care from NY allows her to travel, take yoga, and enjoy life, I want to scream.

Living in rent controlled apartments all their lives, enjoying the good life at the expense of others.

[Graybeard58]

I may be wrong but from personal observation Medicaid is one of the most abused and wasteful gimme programs that the gov has ever come up with.

[Flavius]

Man: Here's one-

Cart-master: Ninepence.

Old Man: (feebly) I'm not dead!

Cart-master: (suprised) What?

Man: Nothing! Here's your ninepence....

Old Man: I'm not dead!

Cart-master: 'Ere! 'E says 'e's not dead!

Man: Yes he is.

Old Man: I'm not!

Cart-master: 'E isn't?

Man: Well... he will be soon-- he's very ill...

Old Man: I'm getting better!

Man: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a

moment.

[DoughtyOne]

Frankly I don't get it. We just signed on to a program that will cost trillions (the medication addition to Medicare), and now we're supposed to be worried about rising costs?

Whew!

[marty60]

Fear mongering. They want people in wheelchairs picketing the WH. I'm sure ABC is readying a MEMO as we speak.

[texastoo]

I'll bet Bush doesn't even think about cutting "Emergency Medicaid". This is the medicaid for illegal immigrants. I would like to see the total of American medicaid and the total of emergency medicaid. Bush will cut Americans but he won't cut illegals. Mexicans come across the border for emergency medicaid daily.

[snowsislander]

I think President Bush is going to accomplish a great deal in his second term, and I hope that this is one area that he can make progress in.

(Now if they would discuss rescinding the drug "benefit" ... ;-)

[cookcounty]

"Many expect him to propose giving states more flexibility in using the $180 billion in federal Medicaid funds each year, but to limit the program's growth on a per-patient basis"

[cookcounty]

"Many expect him to propose giving states more flexibility in using the $180 billion in federal Medicaid funds each year, but to limit the program's growth on a per-patient basis"

"limits on growth" = "cuts?"
Any anti-Bush bias here?

[stopem]

You are absolutely correct.
Medicaid is the biggest waste of money and needs to be cut.

Cut out the prescription drug coverage of medicare, cut out paying for stomach stapling with medicare and medicaid.

[spunkets]

"Bush to Seek Cuts in Medicaid, Benefits"

Before, or after he starves the children?

[stopem]

Exactly!!! Thank you for pointing out the obvious. They are the reason for this increase in healthcare spending.
Get rid of the illegals they are the drain on all of our resources including our money!!, than get rid of medicaid!

[Cobra64]

Personally, I would ELIMINATE all of these programs, including social security, and shut down all entitlement programs, shut down 90% of the Federal Government. HUD? OSHA? DOE? HHS? FAA? ... The list goes on. Worthless bureacratic crap employing illiterate cretins that can maybe figure out their way to the rest rooms, providing that there a training manual produced in Pueblo, Colorado.

[Clemenza]

Whether they're illegal Mexicans or government citizens, they're still on the public teat. As long as he puts the knife to the program, that's all that matters to me, whether those affected are "Mexcuns" or "Amercuns."

[Retired Chemist]

Ass Press: Very descriptive

[FreeReign]

But lobbyists and lawmakers' aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, say he will focus on Medicaid...

Anonymous sources again.

This is AP/Hillary BS. They're setting up a no-win situation for the Republicans and Medicaid.

They can't let it continue to grow and they can't cut the rate of growth.

[ClaireSolt]

You would not believe what goes on in senior medicine. There is lots of expensive surgery on people in their 80's. Now we even get a free health club membership through Medicare. Currently I know of an 84 year old woman who has been in the hospital for three weeks getting therapy to strengthen her muscles. Nuts! A Medicare patient is a doctor's meal ticket.