I will repost a reply I posted to another post about the Baucus plan:
My husband is a physician seeing almost exclusively elderly Medicare patients. He is over 60 years old now and expecting to practice for another 10 years.
If this proposal on the cuts and then freeze of Medicare payments actually goes through, there will be between 700 and 800 patient visits that will not be made in nursing homes in Alabama per month because he will retire and then will be receiving his share of Social Security payments which will cost the government (aka taxpayers) even more money. Way to go, Bobby Bright, Obama, Max Baucus and the rest of you RATS.
We'll shove it up your ass in 2010!