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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…
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…
Although this story is about the situation in Texas, it is happening in other states as well. As it turns out, it costs more money to take care of the needs of senior citizens then what the government plan is willing to pay.
As Ed at HotAir would say, “Nuance”. Fabulously lefty liberal Nobel prize economist Paul Krugman tells the lefty leaning panel on This Week that those “Death Panels” have been mischaracterized to scare people … but in fact in the long run will save us money on ineffective care.
Recently Humana, a Kentucky insurance company that offers Medicare Advantage plans, sent a letter to all of the seniors enrolled in its plans. Although some say the form of the letter may have been an issue, it is the substance of the letter that drew outrage from Senator Baucus (D-Mont.), the author of the Baucus Unaffordable Health Care Bill.…
It is worth some time learning about the man who will be playing a pivotal role in Obamacare (should it come to pass), and who is already playing a pivotal role in Obama’s version of Medicare. He is Dr. Ezikiel Emanuel, and, if the name sounds familiar, he is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, the White House…
From Gateway Pundit, we’ve got video from a Colorado town hall meeting where Rep. Betsy Marky (D-Colo.) flat out states Medicare recipients will have to give up benefits for Obama-Kennedycare to work. Who are you going to believe?
There was an interesting article yesterday about knee replacement surgery. Before you tune out, this post has a far more important message.
Remember when the President told us that Obamacare would cut gabillions in Medicare waste, fraud and abuse? Apparently, in a secret backroom deal, the President deputized the Wall Street Journal to perform this task.
Everything with this administration seems to be “unexpected”…from higher unemployment, to higher gas prices, to higher food prices. We now have a new “unexpected”. Friday the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds issued their annual report. You can read a summary here, but it isn’t pretty.