Seniors Can't Trust DemObamas With Their Health Insurance, Especially
Medicare

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Dick Morris has read the DemObama proposed health care changes, all
1100 pages.
Here are the facts:
"President Obama seeks to cover 50 million new people. Where are the
extra doctors, nurses and so on going to come from? Neither the
administration nor anyone on the Hill has proposed anything to add to
the supply of medical services even as they plan vastly to increase
the demand."

"More, all the bills come up with cash to cover their huge costs by
ordering cuts in Medicare — cuts that Congress could reverse only by
affirmative majority votes. Basically, the government will be paying
doctors and providers even less to treat the elderly — at a time when
countless doctors are starting to refuse new Medicare patients."

"More demand; no added supply; Medicare cuts: It all adds up to
rationing — lower-quality medical care for most Americans, especially
for the elderly."

"For the elderly, it means less care, period. A federal health board
will sit in judgment of medical procedures and protocols and impose
guidelines on all providers for when to withhold certain kinds of
care.
http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2009/08/03/reform-at-seniors-expense/#...

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"Hospice Community Urges President Obama to Stop Funding Cuts

"Cuts Beginning October 1 Will Reduce Access to Care for Dying
Americans

"ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, 3,524
hospice providers from across the country sent a letter to President
Barack Obama urging him to stop cuts to the Medicare hospice benefit
beginning on October 1, 2009.

"The cuts threaten to jeopardize availability of the compassionate and
high-quality care that 1.5 million patients and their family
caregivers receive from hospice providers each year.
"Earlier this year, President Obama and Congress approved a moratorium
on the hospice funding cuts that expires on September 30, 2009.
Without further action, hospice reimbursements will drop by 3.1
percent, leaving hospice programs, particularly smaller and rural
ones, facing cutbacks in services and possible closure."
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=ind_focus....
www.nhpco.org/advocacy

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AP:
"A bipartisan group of senators agreed tentatively Tuesday on a plan
to squeeze an additional $35 billion out of Medicare over the next
decade and larger sums in the years beyond, according to congressional
officials, a step toward fulfilling President Barack Obama's goal of
curbing the growth of health care spending."
"Any bipartisan compromise that emerges from the negotiations is also
expected to include a number of cutbacks in planned payments to
hospitals and other Medicare providers, totaling hundreds of billions
of dollars."

http://news.yahoo.com
"Surely these cuts of $35 billion in a decade would do just that and
weaken Medicare."

http://www.nytimes.com/...
"Is it only me who is concerned when politicians look to Medicare as a
cash cow and want to squeeze money from it to promote "reform"?
Medicare IS the reform and the easiest and cheapest way to extend real
health care reform to everyone is to give everyone Medicare."

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"Health insurers’ stocks are taking a beating today as investors
digest the Obama budget proposal’s push to cut federal payments to
insurers that run private Medicare Advantage plans."

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/02/26/health-insurance-stocks-dive-o...
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"President Obama’s budget proposal is looking to a combination of tax
hikes and cuts to put a down payment on health reform. Details of the
measures are emerging that would have a big impact on the government’s
role in health care, from cuts to private Medicare Advantage plans to
creating a regulatory pathway for approving generic biotechnology
drugs.

"Here’s a rundown of some of the expected health-policy proposals,
which also affect hospitals’ pay and Medicare drug coverage:

"Medicare Advantage: Democrats have been vocal critics of these
private plans within Medicare, claiming they’re taxpayer-subsidized
profit centers for insurers. . . .
"Finally, Obama wants upper-income seniors to pay more for Medicare
drug plans, much as they do for Medicare’s doctor plan, the WSJ
reports."

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/02/26/obama-budget-cuts-medicare-adv...
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Angela Valvo Collins of Sucoast Rehabilitation: "The result, she says,
is that stroke victims do not get the rehabilitation they need. "It is
a horrendous impact for the patient."

""[Edward Morton of NCH Healthcare System] Over the next five years,
the range of the Balanced Budget Act, . . . will result in a reduction
in our ability to provide certain services to this community," he
says.

"I [Goss] know there is an argument that by cutting some spending that
we are taking patient services away." Goss concedes, "That may be
happening, but our intent was to go on a healthy diet, and cut the
waste, fraud and abuse, and not cut into in the muscle."

"He [Morton] resents the "somewhat capricious application of changes
in Medicare reimbursement which have at their core the philosophy that
there exists substantial inefficiency in this industry."

Christman, too, is confused by across-the-board cuts that purport to
discourage inefficiency and theft. "It doesn't matter how low your
costs were, the [reimbursement] is still lowered," he says. "If you
were the most efficient, you still are going to get a... cut."
http://www.gulfshorebusiness.com/Articles/1999/09/Medicare-Cutbacks.asp

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