Archive for October 21st, 2009
Progressive Radical Socialist Canned Criticism of American People: Danger, Profits, and Wrong Thinking
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US Debt Clock Real Time–As Seen in Above Video (Must Viewing)!
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Background Articles and Videos
Sen. John Thune discussing the “Doctor FIx” Bill
Reid Discusses An Important New Fix for Medicare
Health Care Reform Cost Visualization
National Debt- How Much Is A Billion Dollars? Dave Walker
Democrats Prepare to Bribe Doctors to Support Obamacare
“…This week the Senate is considering its next payoff to a powerful lobbying group—a $247 billion package for the American Medical Association. The funding is not offset and would dramatically increase the deficit. Harry Reid is betting that the bill will prove politically impossible for most Senators, including Republicans, to oppose as it addresses the number one priority for most doctors over the years—the fact that Medicare doesn’t reimburse them enough. By considering the “doc fix” apart from overall healthcare reform, he and Max Baucus remove a major cost to that package. As Senator McConnell said, “This is so transparent. They’re taking this issue out of health care, suggesting that we spend a quarter of a trillion dollars, not pay for it, so that they can then argue, the very next week potentially, that this trillion-dollar health care bill is paid for.” …”
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/10/20/democrats-prepare-to-bribe-doctors-to-support-obamacare/
The Doctor Fix Is In
Adding lots of ‘dimes’ to the deficit.
“…Later this week, or maybe next, Senate Democrats plan to vote on a stand-alone bill that strips a formula that automatically cuts Medicare physician payments out of “comprehensive” health reform. Rather than include the pricey $247 billion plan known on Capitol Hill as the “doc fix” as part of ObamaCare, they’ll instead make this a separate contribution to the deficit, without compensating tax increases or spending cuts. Majority Leader Harry Reid explained at a press conference last week that “All we’re doing is wiping the slate clean by adjusting the baseline to what is current policy. This is not new policy.”
Wiping the slate is right.
It’s true that Congress likes to pretend that the “sustainable growth rate,” or SGR, is real. Created in 1997, the SGR slashes Medicare reimbursements if costs rise too steeply, as they always do. In January, doctors fees are scheduled to fall by 21.5%, and 40% over the next five years. That would force many doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients, so Congress intervenes every year and temporarily overrides the cuts.
The American Medical Association’s asking price for supporting ObamaCare is scrapping the SGR. House Democrats did just that, but it pushed the total cost of their bill above $1 trillion, a political red line. The Senate Finance Committee chose the subterfuge of fixing the problem for only one year, which is how Chairman Max Baucus could claim he had done the miracle-work of designing an entitlement that reduces the deficit over 10 years. The AMA wasn’t pacified. …”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704500604574483531025733584.html
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