Posted on 10/12/2009 4:01:48 AM PDT by xtinct
As if seniors didn’t have enough worries about Medicare, they now have an unexpected new one - health care “reform.”
For the past decade increases in health care costs have outpaced overall inflation to the extent that the Medicare Trust Fund’s 2017 bankruptcy is now alarmingly imminent. Seniors also recognize that “reform” is not about them but rather about subsidizing health insurance premiums for the uninsured under-65s.
Nevertheless President Barack Obama persists with a disingenuous pitch to seniors which goes like this: “The nearly $1 trillion reform tab will be paid for with new revenues (also known as taxes) plus a combination of immediate and delayed savings with some of the latter trickling down to Medicare.”
The catch is that the delayed savings remain problematic, defying measurement even by the Congressional Budget Office and so can’t be counted upon to either reduce the tab or to ultimately prove beneficial to seniors. The admirable goal of reforming the existing provider payment system falls in this delayed category. The theory here is that quality of care will improve by transforming a perverse fee-for-service scheme rewarding volume of services into a pay-for-performance system. Such efforts have already shown some incremental promise but are years away from fruition.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Health Care Reform --> another scam...
Another great American Ponzi scheme.....
They [Senior’s hearts] won’t be skipping many beats after obama care becomes effective. They will be stopped.
But that was what they [Seniors] voted for him to do.
Madoff Medical.
( You can trust us this time )
Pay-for-performance is just another rationing scheme to cut off the sickest.
Where is that vaunted ability of seniors to get things done in government because of their high voting percentage? You folks better get it going soon.
MEdical reform = RAID for seniors....
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