it does...medicare is also refusing to pay for many tests required by doctors. this will finish off a lot of people i know.
TV ads about this needs to start running TODAY!
Every time a layer of this onion gets peeled the C of C or someone needs to make ad buys.
Exhibit eleventy-bajillion who CBO static scoring is pure, unadulterated crap.
It really makes me angry/angrier. My mom watched the replay of the signing on the news the other day and said to me, “This isn’t good, is it?”.
Hope they are not going Medicare Rx to Walgreens then. Hmm, the deem-o-crats.. they just love old people and children. Guess they forgot they will get old as well.
The same thing will be happening now, with employer plans.
The list, ping
The attached link should answer some questions about the the government’s role behind the increases in health care premiums:
“You’re increasing the incentive for companies to say ‘We don’t want to be in the health care business any more,’”
Music to my ears! That’s not to say the Obamacare package is what we want. I think its opponents should be vowing to change it rather than repeal it. It ain’t gonna get repealed.
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollees cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf