$500 billion - $800 billion cut in Medicare

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It appears Obama's $500,000,000,000 to $800,000,000,000 cut in Medicare is still in the new package. Will someone please explain to me how this will not result in reduced coverage, severe rationing of benefits and more cuts in payments to doctors for Medicare patients. If you were a doctor being compensated less than a Government Motors (GM) worker or civil service bureaucrat, would you keep your Medicare practice? Will doctors bail out of Medicare in sufficient numbers to cripple the entire system? Obama has already reduced payments to cancer and heart specialists as well as for diagnostics. When is the last time the government brought an initiative, project or program in on time and on budget? Does the majority in Congress think about the tragic, catastrophic consequences of rushing health care through for an empty ideological victory....the future of the nation be damned?

It is stunning that the senior constituency this scary "cost effective" initiative in Obamacare targets to balance its books, includes those that need medical care the most. Further we have been snookered and sold out by Obama and Congress as we have supported Medicare by paying into it all our lives with an expectation of its benefit in our "golden" years.

This is being done to "spread the health" to a younger demographic who are less demanding on the system. Is that what socialism does? Is that the way Obamacare balances its books? Now that's a real slap in the face to every American who has moved into Medicare or is getting close.

I am exercised and motivated sufficiently to convert energy into phone calls and emails to legislators and old political friends on both sides of the isle. I hope you are motivated as well.

[Guest]

Medicare cuts that will in fact reduce costs without affecting services.
The temporary bill this past week that was for 10 billion dollars, that was held up by the Senator from KY, was going to result in physicians providing lessor services to make up for the delays in payments.

Wait until they pull the trigger on $500 to 800 billion.

I believe the liberal supporters know all to well that this bill will affect them just as negatively as it will the rest of us. And that is why there in no response from any of them. We can only hope in the privacy of their shell they do the right thing and contact their representatives as well as not re-electing any incumbents.

What a pity their belief or following will not allow them to join any discussion that does not follow party rhetoric.

btk

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TODAYS HEADLINES...

"The president launched a last-ditch effort to pass a government takeover of American health care. To hear him tell it, his plan would let every American keep the health insurance he has today if he wants to. And it would reduce premiums, cut taxes for the middle class, slow the pace of rising costs, reduce the federal budget deficit , and keep bureaucrats out of health-care decisions too.

This latest presidential health-care pitch might have left some Americans scratching their heads. What plan is he talking about, they might ask themselves. Because the plan he described doesn't remotely resemble anything the Democrats have assembled over the past year.

The Senate-passed bill, upon which the president’s latest offering is modeled, would not let Americans keep the insurance they have today. It would impose deep cuts in the private-insurance component of Medicare, called Medicare Advantage. Those cuts would force millions of seniors out of their current coverage, against their will. They would get much less by way of benefits to boot. And many millions of workers would lose their job-based plans as employers opted to pay the government’s fines instead of offering heavily regulated coverage themselves.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124350747

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A trillion is 1 million, millions.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12754