Liars. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security were not included in the sequester.
Besides, if it were true, blame it on Obama. The sequester was his idea.
Republicans need to make a pre-emptive strike against the DemocRATS and make sure the ownership falls on the left, and with Obamacare. They CANNOT bend over and let BO assign the blame to them.
Most of those Medicare patients are just racist white folks anyway.
Besides, we need to make room for the new anti-American Americans who broke Federal law coming in from the south.
Obamanation Counterculture File.
Obomination begins...Americans die...
My brother died of cancer. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
Still, I’d like to know what makes anyone think that someone else should have to pay for their treatment. Obviously, these treatments are not self-sustaining in cost. They need the unending flow of stolen dollars, perhaps because they have not had to learn how to run a business without it.
The ads for Cancer Treatment Centers of America seem fishy to me. They seem like one of these parasite companies that is only in business for the Medicare dollar. If they go out of business, that will probably be a good thing.
I slipped in the shower this morning... you know why?
yep ...Sequester
Medicare or Medicaid? It was my understanding that, miserly as Medicare payments were, Medicaid was much worse.
According to Rush this a.m., this is all BS! If it is happening, it’s because those running the “clinics” are trying to help Obamacare.
Wow, it all that happens when 2% of the budget it cut, what happens when the US Dollar collapses and/or the Gov’t is bankrupt?
And myriad groups around the country and the world, donate to this organization. What a sham.
You can’t manage on 2% less monies?
Gimme a break...
“blaming the sequester budget cuts.”
Those evil Repubs and their $44B cut to the entire federal budget is causing the deaths of millions, while the benolavent Dems and their $715B cut to medicare built a heaven for those that the evil republicans murder!
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In the past 24 hours, cancer patients’ access to Medicare treatment has been the focus of an alarming headline. In this case, the budget sequestration—an idea originally proposed and now routinely derided by President Obama—is identified as the culprit.
But policymakers and taxpayers alike may want to take a closer look: Immediately ahead, for fiscal year 2013, the total effect of sequestration will be $3 billion. That is the same amount Obamacare is supposed to reduce Medicare spending this year.
But if Medicare patients can’t access vitally needed care because of $6 billion in total reduced Medicare payments, they’d better prepare for next year. That’s when Obamacare cuts an estimated $41 billion out of Medicare—in addition to the Medicare sequestration cuts of $9 billion that year.
The total effect of sequestration on Medicare benefit spending is $100 billion from 2013 to 2023. Those cuts pale in comparison to the $716 billion in Medicare payment reductions required by Obamacare over the same time period. Included in these cuts is a payment reduction of $156 billion for Medicare Advantage plans. That kind of a slice is a lot more than just a “tiny haircut.”
By 2020, Obamacare will reduce overall Medicare spending by more than $100 billion a year.
The $3 billion in 2013 sequestration cuts is practically a rounding error when put in the context of Obamacare’s total Medicare cuts.
Liberals believe that payment cuts and price controls are good public policy. That’s how Medicare is supposed to control costs, right?
Oh, and by the way: These cuts are targeted to Medicare providers. They don’t cut “guaranteed” benefits. After all, that’s what President Obama, Vice President Biden, and their allies in Congress and the media told us, day in and day out, during the entire 2012 presidential campaign. That’s what all the liberals said. So, really, there is nothing for 50 million seniors to worry about, right?