Senate Democrats look to bribe our physicians to increase their support of health care reform.
Maneuvering to boost prospects for sweeping health care legislation, Senate Democrats hope first to win quick approval for a bill that grants doctors a $247 billion increase in Medicare fees over a decade but raises federal deficits in the process, officials said Wednesday.
By creating a two-bill approach, Democrats intend to claim the more comprehensive health care measure meets President Barack Obama’s conditions — that it will neither add to deficits nor exceed $900 billion in costs over 10 years.
Good grief! One really has to ask if the elite politicians think the general public can’t see through this charade. The answer is obvious.
Doesn’t the Baucus bill include significant cuts to Medicare?
No group has been arguably more strongly opposed to Washington’s health-care agenda than seniors, with good reason. The White House insists that the proposed hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare payment cuts, including cuts to the Medicare Advantage system of private plans, will not mean cuts for seniors’ benefits. But they will mean benefit cuts. The additional payments that Medicare Advantage plans have enjoyed have been translated into additional benefits. Extra benefits include services like routine eye and hearing tests, additional nursing, and hospitalization and preventive care. You cut the payments, you will cut the benefits. CBO has confirmed this — repeatedly.
Thought so.
I’d be embarrassed to talk out of both sides of my mouth like these idiot politicians. They’ve been doing it for so many years it’s business as usual.
