Uncertainty over Medicare pay sets doctors on edge
For the third time this year, Congress is scrambling to stave off a hefty pay cut to doctors treating Medicare patients — even as the Obama administration mails out a glossy brochure to reassure seniors the health care program is on solid ground.
The 21.3 percent cut will take effect June 1 unless Congress intervenes in the next few days. Recurring uncertainty over Medicare fees is making doctors take a hard look at their participation in a program considered a bedrock of middle-class retirement security.
Do I understand this correctly?
The 2400 page Health Care Deform bill that was so critical for reforming the medical industry will be causing doctors to be paid so little, that the doctors can no longer afford to care for patients on medicare and medical? If so, then the Health Care Deform was a brilliant piece of misdirection (you lie) on the part of the democrats. If nobody on medicare can get medical treatment, then Barack Hussein Obama's promise that this bill would balance the budget is true. If the government can't find any doctor to work for the low amounts that the government is willing to pay, then the government will not have to payout anything. Thus lowering the payout and balancing the budget. And all without the death squads people were so worried about either. Who needs death squads when you can't get any medical care at all.
Isn't socialized medicine wonderful.
No, no, no. Here is how it works.
ReplyDeleteFirst you pass a health care bill that will cover everyone.
Then you pass a funding cut to make it less expensive.
Now everyone gets cheap medical care. Bandaids are cheap, right?
The 21.3 percent money saved is now available for other projects, such as special interests and pork that are much more useful for getting re-elected.