Posted on 07/21/2009 3:06:46 PM PDT by kcvl
WASHINGTON (AP) - A senior administration official says billions of dollars to raise fees for doctors treating Medicare patients are not covered by President Barack Obama's pledge to pay for health care legislation. Budget Director Peter Orszag said Tuesday that's because the administration always assumed the money would be spent to prevent a cut of more than 20 percent in doctor fees.
The Congressional Budget Office said last Friday the higher payments cost $245 billion over 10 years. It said including the money in the overall bill would result in deficits totaling $239 billion.
On Friday, a few hours earlier, the president declared: "I've said that health-insurance reform cannot add to our deficit over the next decade. And I mean it."
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They “overlooked” $245 billion that taxpayers will have to cough up? Is it dawning on the doctors that their incomes are going to be capped by the government? More and more of a mess.
why should they pay doctor’s fees, when they want all doctors to be on their staff first?
why should they pay doctor’s fees, when they want all doctors to be on the obamanation health care staff first?
I am sure there are trillions of dollars worth of expenses not accounted for.
Thanks for posting this. I saw it out there but didn’t really understand what the heck the article is saying.
I just knew it would make bambi look like a bigger ass.
Need to keep this bumped!
Ah. Apparently EVERYONE must want something for nothing, especially the federal government.
Being a doctor will be a minimum wage job.
Or how about like in Britain: Doctors in the UK are paid so little on their national health service that no one want sot go into the field. They’ve had to import doctors from Pakistan.
LOL
I wonder if the AMA was aware of the pay caps and fee limits when they "endorsed" the Plan!
Have OMB Chief and Obama have come up with some sleight of hand to make the OMB deficit proclaimed last Friday not seem so bad?
Don't trust these commie one centimeter.
What was that again, AMA?
Man, any ‘cost cutting’ baloney he puts out is going to be like this. Some buried provision that he hopes no one catches.
can you imagine going to a doctor who you know is unqualified? I don’t see how the young doctors can even afford to pay their medical school bills under this arrangement..... so unfair....
He's a wonderful doctor, and a very hard working man. Lately, people have been talking in private about their fears regarding what is happening to our country. They are very afraid to speak in public.
ObamaCare is a ClusterBlank.
I talked to a third year medical student a couple of weeks ago. He said a lot of his classmates were taking a year off from school. I wonder how many are rethinking their career choice? Eight years of agony is a long haul for no monetary reward at the end of it all.
that is really bad news for the American people who are used to having the best medical care in the world.... I simply wring my hands ....
The list, ping
Yet we go on about it for all the Internet to see. Go figure.
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