Posted on 07/16/2009 7:36:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
At the same time President Obama is asking members of Congress to take one of the most politically difficult votes of their careers, he is also pressing lawmakers to give up one of their most valued perks of office: boosting Medicare payments to benefit hometown providers.
Behind the scenes, Obama is pushing for a mechanism that would take Medicare payment authority out of the hands of politicians and invest it in a separate entity, possibly under the executive branch.
"Structures that fundamentally alter the long-term costs are a must for real health-care reform," said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. He called the Medicare payment debate "the least talked-about, most important issue on the table."
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You beat me to it. We will see a Medicare czar.
I’ve never understood how Medicare will function with this new health care plan that he wants to shove down our throats.
Will Medicare still be the plan for the elderly and disabled? Will Medicare as we know it go away?
Why don’t important issues such as these get discussed, as we rush to “reform” a huge complicated piece of the economy?
We will ALL be on MEDICARE....that’s what I think.
Absolutely!
Constituents should ask their reps if they will be on the same plan or the Lords & Masters plan they are on now.
Oddly, Emmanuel seems to suggest that the favoring of hometown providers is responsible for increased costs. They are already reimbursing at less than the cost of provision in many areas, many procedures. Maybe Rahm wants his hands on the wheel so he can reduce reimbursement even more rapidly, shifting costs to private insurers faster and running them out of business?
The list, ping
Yeas, this seems to be the case. These people are doing a takeover on almost everything as we watch.
The arguments against universal health care:
1. It will cost too damn much, a lot more than the projected costs offered by government bureaucratic flunkies.
2. Health care will be rationed.
3. No incentives for doctors of all kinds to become doctors or to stay in the medical profession because salaries will be capped.
4. Enormous taxes for everybody in order to pay for universal health care.
5. Patients will wait months and years for care. This will especially hurt the elderly the most. The elderly will die waiting for care.
6. No guarantee illegal aliens will not be recipients of health care that American taxpayers (you and me) will pay through the nose for.
7. Government bureaucrats will determine who will receive care and who wont.
8. Health care will no longer be determined by doctors and their patients but be run by a nameless faceless government bureaucracy.
There, fixed.
My same thoughts.
Control-—control-—control-—
That is all the Democraps are interested in.
I predict more and more denials of care to citizens.
This is a giant hoax.
It is NOT health care!!!
It is health insurance- with a fat wall of bureaucrats deciding whether they will treat you or not.
Then they will set up major penalties against doctors who could treat you if you paid them directly.
This is another method to reduce the populatoin of the USA- then the world.
Earth First! and Dave Forman formula being enacted.
Everyone I talk to thinks they will be getting health care!!
I try to explain to them they will be forced to pay for health INSURANCE—with absolutely no guarantee of ever getting any services for care.
You have diabetes? You are fat and you ate yourself to that condition. No services.
You have lung problems? You worked as a firefighter. No services.
You have skin problems? You worked as a lifeguard. No services......
On and on....
At some point, both parties in Congress need to stand up for the separation of powers. The Kenyan is an out of control FAILURE.
People only see what they want to see.
Especially libtards.
That is how we got the prez we got.
That is how our great country got into this whole mess.
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