Disappearing Care, Rising Costs
Seniors, is this the change you hoped for?
A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending — one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system — would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday.
The report, requested by House Republicans, found that Medicare cuts contained in the health package approved by the House on Nov. 7 are likely to prove so costly to hospitals and nursing homes that they could stop taking Medicare altogether.
Congress could intervene to avoid such an outcome, but “so doing would likely result in significantly smaller actual savings” than is currently projected, according to the analysis by the chief actuary for the agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid. That would wipe out a big chunk of the financing for the health-care reform package, which is projected to cost $1.05 trillion over the next decade.
Welcome to ObamaCare. This bill is a complete fraud. It cuts benefits, raises costs for everyone, creates huge bureaucracies, pries into the most private aspects of American’s lives and makes things worse all around.
In other words, it is government gone mad. We are in real trouble as a nation if this passes. Better start calling your Senators.
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By checkers, November 15, 2009 @ 8:56 pm
Hospitals, Nursing Homes, and Doctors can not stop taking Medicare if the government “mandates” that we can not stop taking it. At this point, the government can pretty much “mandate” anything that I as a physician can and will do. Does anyone believe they will not force their pay scale and social scheme on my profession? My only recourse ultimately is to leave the profession.
By Dorf, November 16, 2009 @ 4:11 pm
checkers… et al No you can join the underground economy, at least we rid ourselves of this obamination…