Posts Tagged ‘medicare’
Do we need Medicare reform?
As you know, Representative Paul Ryan (R. Wi.) has proposed that Congress tackle the looming fiscal disaster that exists for Medicare. A caller yesterday objected to any change because, as he put it, he has been paying into Medicare for years and wants to make sure he gets his money back.
Read MoreMore of your tax dollars at work
Remember those heartwarming commercials before last year’s election where Andy Griffith tried to assure seniors that Obamacare was really a great program? Just in case you’ve forgotten, you can view one of them here. As we pointed out then, Sheriff Andy didn’t exactly tell the truth about Obamacare. He tried to assure seniors that their Medicare benefits…
Read MoreMedicare Advantage is dead…well, not quite
By now everyone knows that a large piece of Obamacare’s “deficit neutrality” comes from the provision that would eliminate Medicare Advantage programs for seniors. This will “save” the government some $136 billion over 10 years. Medicare Advantage is despised by the left because it is privately run, and demonstrates to all that “market pricing and competition” are…
Read MoreCavuto vs Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee- Playing the human shield game
It’s not new. Democrats use human shields to push every piece of big government legislation they propose. It’s just unusual to find someone like a Neil Cavuto to call Democrats on it. Fantastic ands funny … it’s your Cavuto moment of the day.
Read MoreDocs sick of the Medicare cut threats – what would you do?
Here we go again. Physicians are trying to plan for a possible 23 percent Medicare reimbursement cut. Or maybe no cut at all. Physicians are running a business. They have employees, rent, insurance and utilities payments. Make the system too difficult to work with, and they look for options.
Read MoreObamacare: here’s an idea, let’s steal from the seniors
We are told that millions who currently have no health insurance will soon be covered under Obamacare. But, where will the money come from to do this? By 2017, thousands of people in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio will be paying more than $5,000 per year in lost health-care benefits to make ObamaCare possible…[f]or some…
Read MoreSheriff Andy thinks Obamacare is just swell
Please tell me it ain’t so. The Sheriff of Mayberry, the down home Southern boy has become the spokesperson for Obamacare. But really, it should not surpirse, Griffith campaigned for the boy President in ’08.
Read MoreNBC in Dallas notes the obvious – Docs pull out of Medicaid
When the government pays health care providers less than it costs the provider to provide the service, the providers will elect not to provide the service. I really tried hard to get another reference to provide in there…
Read MoreObama names health care “rationer in chief” Update
Today President Obama named Donald Berwick to the position of head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This is not good news for anyone who relies on either Medicare or Medicaid for their health care. Dr. Berwick, a Harvard medical school professor, was appointed by Obama to this post in April, but no Senate…
Read MoreCaution: Medicare may be hazardous to your health
If you are currently on Medicare, by now you have already received the nifty 4 page flyer from the Department of Health and Human Services extolling the virtues of Obamacare for those on Medicare. Unfortunately, much of what is contained in the flyer is untrue. Now, however, you have even more to be concerned about.…
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