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Sep 21, 2012, 7:45:44 PM9/21/12
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On 9/21/2012 5:39 PM, fa...@notspins.now wrote:
> Report: The Affordable Care Act, 'Obamacare,' has saved seniors
You don't learn very well do you Mr ?
Do you need another tour of the internet?
Giddyup then:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/17/how-paul-ryan-s-medicare-plan-is-coming-back-to-haunt-obama.html
Both the Romney/Ryan and Obama plans end Medicare “as we know it.” The
program is running out of money as fewer people pay in than receive
benefits. In just 12 years, Medicare’s hospital trust fund is predicted
to become insolvent. And for the next 17½ years, 10,000 baby boomers
will reach age 65 every day. So, it’s really just a question of when the
end comes—for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—and what happens next.
It’s also true that the president has cut more than $700 billion from
Medicare and credits it toward the cost of Obamacare. While some of
those cuts are admirable—everyone wants to see fraud reduced—other cuts
are in payments to providers. And it’s a bit disingenuous of Team Obama
to claim these cuts won’t affect benefits. In Texas, one of the few
states to track doctor drop-outs, the number of physicians accepting
Medicare patients fell from 78 percent in 2000 to 58 percent in
2012—because of cuts in payments, with more cuts to come. Punishing
doctors with lower, sometimes below-cost fees for treating Medicare
patients means fewer doctors, decreased care, and even—yes—the potential
for rationing of care.
Sadly, all of this could have been avoided had President Obama simply
led and acted on the 2010 Simpson-Bowles plan.
> Report: The Affordable Care Act, 'Obamacare,' has saved seniors
You don't learn very well do you Mr ?
Do you need another tour of the internet?
Giddyup then:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/17/how-paul-ryan-s-medicare-plan-is-coming-back-to-haunt-obama.html
Both the Romney/Ryan and Obama plans end Medicare “as we know it.” The
program is running out of money as fewer people pay in than receive
benefits. In just 12 years, Medicare’s hospital trust fund is predicted
to become insolvent. And for the next 17½ years, 10,000 baby boomers
will reach age 65 every day. So, it’s really just a question of when the
end comes—for Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—and what happens next.
It’s also true that the president has cut more than $700 billion from
Medicare and credits it toward the cost of Obamacare. While some of
those cuts are admirable—everyone wants to see fraud reduced—other cuts
are in payments to providers. And it’s a bit disingenuous of Team Obama
to claim these cuts won’t affect benefits. In Texas, one of the few
states to track doctor drop-outs, the number of physicians accepting
Medicare patients fell from 78 percent in 2000 to 58 percent in
2012—because of cuts in payments, with more cuts to come. Punishing
doctors with lower, sometimes below-cost fees for treating Medicare
patients means fewer doctors, decreased care, and even—yes—the potential
for rationing of care.
Sadly, all of this could have been avoided had President Obama simply
led and acted on the 2010 Simpson-Bowles plan.
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