Posted on 05/05/2010 12:51:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Legislate in haste, repent at leisure. The ObamaCare bill signed by Barack Obama after getting hastily and repeatedly rewritten in backroom negotiations by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid turns out to cost a lot more than they admitted and in new areas that keep appearing after its passage. The CBO now estimates the doctor fix that Pelosi and Reid promised to the AMA in exchange for their support will cost much more than the Democratic leaders admitted, emphases mine:
The debate over what to do about Medicare payments to doctors continues. Physicans have been lobbying to repeal the Sustainable Growth Rate formula, which triggers automatic Medicare payment cuts if spending rises above a certain level, CongressDailyreports. Those cuts have been put off for years.
On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office said that just freezing current Medicare payment rates to doctors would likely cost nearly $276 billion through 2020, a 33 percent increase from legislation that would accomplish that goal introduced late last year by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., estimated to cost $207 billion at the time according to CongressDaily. Aides on both sides of the aisle attributed the cost increase to assumptions of an improved economy, which tends to add more to the cost of health services, as well as demographic changes that foresee increased numbers of retirees in 2020 over the previous year.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Yeah they were determined to have the number come in at less than 1 trillion, so they tinkered with the equation until they came in at 985 billion as the estimated cost of Obama care. Kind of the same BS they use when factoring unemployment, which they claim is 9.8% ... don't want to go over that 10% number. When in reality it's closer to 14-16% in real numbers.
EXACTLY
Surgery centers and physicians are no longer taking Medicare patients as of the DeathCare bill being signed. I called my Congressman’s office in DC and was told this is happening everywhere.
Be sure to show your appreciation by voting RATs and RINOs out on November 2nd and finish cleaning the sewer that is this thug Administration and this Congress in November 2012;
Priority is Repeal of the DeathCare.
“unexpectedly”
We all know they cooked the books (repeatedly)
The books should be mush by now.
mmm, mmm, mmm.
Barack Hussein Obama
Good one ;-)
Don’t doubt it one bit. Medicare patients were already having a hard time finding a doctor to take them.
VFW magazine: May 2010 edition, not on line I copied this from the mag.
By Tim Dyhouse, Washingtonwire. News from VFW’s Washington Office
Legislation: Fix Health Care Law, Says VFW.
Buried on page 333 of a 2,400 page document were four lines of text that only recognized Tricare for Life and veterans’ health care programs under Chapter 17, Title 38 as being accepted as minimum essential coverage under the new law. No specific language to protect other Tricare programs or other Title 38 recipients-dependents, widows or children-could be found.
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VFW is now working with members of Congress from both parties to submit amendments or legislation to fix the new national health care law. VFW applauds the corrective actions taken by Skelton as well as those of Reps. Steve Buyers (R-Ind) and Buch McKeon (R-Cal), and Sens. Daniel Akala (D-Hawaii), Richard Burr (R-N.C. and Jim Webb (D-VA).
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