Medicare cuts are the source of “savings” that will cut deficit. Grandma ain’t getting’ what she was promised and the statists do not give a rip. The One is going to cut medicare by $500 Billion, but don’t you worry. Those cuts are going to come from rooting out the waste and the fraud already in the system. What a crock. After all these years The Obamessiah has finally figured out where all the waste is… I don’t think so.
Those cuts are coming from cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals. Here is some info from an article on FOXNews:
- 1) For the past decade Medicare consistently paid physicians 20% less than traditional insurance companies for identical service.
- 2) On January 1, 2010 Washington made hidden cuts to Medicare by altering its billing codes.
- 3) Medicare will cut physician reimbursement by another 21% on March 1. The CBO said this cut must take place if the Senate healthcare bill was to “reduced the deficit.”
- 4) Even more, Congress pledged to cut Medicare by yet another $500 billion. Again, the CBO said this additional cut must take place if the Senate healthcare bill was to “reduced the deficit.”
Many physicians were operating at a loss even before this series of massive cuts. In 2008, Mayo Clinic posted an $840 million loss in caring for Medicare patients. No businesses can survive when patient care expenses exceed revenue.
Common sense will tell you that $500 billion in cuts plus the other cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals will drastically reduce the treatment choices and opportunities grandma will have. On top of that we have this from the Heritage Foundation:
Moreover, these Medicare cuts include more than $100 billion in “savings” from changes in Medicare Advantage plans, a move that would directly affect the benefits of millions of seniors. In his analysis of the Senate bill, Foster confirmed that these changes would result in “less generous packages” and that enrollment “would decrease by about 33 percent.”[17]
It is still not to late to stop this.
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