If Medicare is to be reduced by $500 billion that simply means paying less to providers. That simply means the providers will have to adjust in some manner...that would be either less access, less care, reduced care, etc.

Adding 32,000,000 uninsured to the existing medical system's capabilty (or not) to serve today. Just how will that be possible without restricting access...more patients = longer waits = shorter appointment times. Just imagine here in our bubble, TV, if starting Monday morning there were 10,000 new patients looking for some sort of medical provision.

Can someone, anyone explain if they are going to increase the number of people allowed benefits under Medicaid, which is paid for state by state...not the federal government....a system today that is on the brink of insolvency with it's current benefactors only....where is that money to come from?

You remember those bad guys called the insurers? The other ones in the pharmacy businesses? They get 32,000,000 new customers. I don't think they are too concerned about the increased coverages they will have to provide.

I don't care what your party or what your belief.....one cannot continue to increase spending without increasing revenues to support the spending. It is just that simple. Unfortunately far too many do not understand the simple concept of balancing a checkbook. You CANNOT spend more without getting more money. Yes some part of the spending can be on credit, but that too will max out. A simple concept NONE of the smiling dunces in Washington understand or care about.

The only certainty in the new bill is that you WILL be paying more, much more than you think, in the future just to keep the level of coverage you have today.

I need to be shown how this bill will be funded. To date that HAS NOT been addressed.

btk