Getting back to the British NHS alleged "death panel" pathways into which elderly people have been shifted, to "save" money for other uses by politicians managing the system......

Who, here, wants all our nation's healthcare put into the hands of local, regional and federal politicians who are perpetually running for office, and who will manipulate the healthcare budgets any way possible to get some more votes for themselves?????

All along, Obamacare law has been set to "redistribute" $500 billion OUT of Medicare, to pay for the new, added costs of Obamacare plans.

[I]"Specifically, 12 million seniors use a program called Medicare Advantage, under which the government pays private insurers to cover seniors.

Medicare Advantage customers typically have more options, and at times more coverage, than standard Medicare customers. But the Obama administration said Medicare was overpaying the private insurers, and so the architects of Obamacare slashed $136 billion from Medicare Advantage to offset the cost of Obamacare.

The Medicare Advantage cuts were to begin in 2013, which would cause many insurers to pull out of the program, thus driving seniors into regular Medicare. So much for “if you like your plan, you can keep it.”

The New York Post’s Benjamin Sasse and Charlie Hurt explained the awkward details of timing: “Open enrollment [for 2013 Medicare Advantage] begins Oct. 15, less than three weeks before voters go to the polls.” So Obamacare would kick seniors out of their Medicare program three weeks before Obama’s re-election.

That, of course, would be politically damaging. So Obama simply took $8.35 billion from a Obamacare fund for “demonstration projects” and used it to delay the brunt of the Medicare Advantage cuts until after the election.

The GAO last week pointed out the extraordinary nature of this “demonstration.” The program “dwarfs all other Medicare demonstrations — both mandatory and discretionary — conducted since 1995,” the GAO stated."[/COLOR][/COLOR]

Benjamin E. Sasse, a former US assistant secretary of health, is president of Midland University. Charles Hurt covers politics in DC.

President Obama’s Medicare slush fund—Benjamin E. Sasse & Charles Hurt - NYPOST.com