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Originally Posted by waynet
here is the fact that some are ignoring. The Ryan plan cuts the same $700 billion from medicare. I repeat the same amount is cut from the Ryan plan.The difference is where the cuts are made. The Obama plan will not cut directly into coverage and care,the Ryan plan does.
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Well, now that is not exactly true......
as part of the submission to CBO and as one method of paying for the new law the Obama admin says they will cut 700 billion making Medicare payments more efficient by linking them to the quality of health care delivered rather than the sheer number of procedures performed. In addition it tightens data collection and lowers payments for hospitals that readmit too many patients, among other measures.
now this is from their submission to the CBO and includes the infamous 15-member Independent Payment Advisory board
So in fact it does do the EXACT same thing as the Ryan plan over the same amount of time. The gamble is on insuring that these "efficiencies" actually take place and amount to the correct amount of time.
BOTH PLANS have the same target...EXACTLY the same... restricting the program's growth rate to 0.5 percent of annual GDP. The difference is how they get there.
Please....they both want to AND HAVE to get to the same place. Question is only which will actually get us there !