They should increase reimbursements for medicare because that’s a big problem with medicine, but at the same time, this is being done separate to hide the true cost of the bill.
YOU ARE RIGHT.
Here is what is happening. The Obamacare bill wants to claim to be revenue neutral or "providing universal coverage while not adding to the deficit"
This is a mathematical impossibility
So what they do is to vote for more medicare funding and increase the debt (250 billion) pre Obamacare, then with Obamacare they cut medicare funding (250 billion) and VOILA, THEY ARE ABLE TO PASS OBAMACARE BECAUSE IT "provides universal coverage and does not increase the debt".