Originally Posted by njbchbum

and i thought that it was obamascare that granted susidies and payments caps! silly me!

How the Affordable Care Act of 2010 Will Help Low and Moderate Income Families, By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Vice President of Affordable Health Insurance, The Commonwealth Fund - Spotlight On Poverty

When people refuse to read anything except what makes them feel good, and do not realize that there are two sides, and nobody is 100% correct.

They continue to embarass themselves with things that are just patently wrong and not true.

There are questions to be answered by both sides. Seems on here, the one side does not feel that way...whatever it takes to get votes NO MATTER where that might take the country, and to not even want to investigate both sides boggles my mind.

As one poster from that group said this morning....it is all about attacking the character !!!


PS...the Affordable Health care Law relies on making Medicare payments more efficient by linking them to the quality of health care delivered rather than the sheer number of procedures performed. This wouldn't affect the benefits elderly Medicare recipients draw, but would curtail the amount of Medicare dollars flowing to health care providers. The savings would be used to pay for other parts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We all know how that efficiency thing works with our government......and the CBO estimate on cost keeps going up.

Originally Posted by njbchbum

and i thought that it was obamascare that granted susidies and payments caps! silly me!

How the Affordable Care Act of 2010 Will Help Low and Moderate Income Families, By Sara R. Collins, Ph.D., Vice President of Affordable Health Insurance, The Commonwealth Fund - Spotlight On Poverty

You've pointed out what I find interesting. Both the ACA and the Ryan Plan for Medicare have essentially the same features. Both set up exchanges and individuals will go to these exchanges to purchase health insurance from private companies. Both provide varying subsidies for certain income levels.

The difference is that the Ryan plan proposes (10 years after enactment) to replace a curently existing universal health care program (Medicare) for those age 65 and older and the ACA uses these features to ensure that those under age 65 for whom health insurance is either not available or not affordable can purchase health insurance.