[net-gold] The Republican Plan: Just End Medicare
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- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:34:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:19:04 -0000
From: JonG <jon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] The Republican Plan: Just End Medicare
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The Republican Plan: Just End Medicare
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This week, the Republicans will
offer a proposal that ultimately
would end Medicare involvement.
The plain is simply end Medicare.
The proposal outlined is outlined
in the Wall Street Journal today.
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"The plan would essentially end
Medicare, which now pays most of
the health-care bills for 48 million
elderly and disabled Americans,
as a program that directly pays
those bills. Mr. Ryan and other
conservatives say this is necessary
because of the program's soaring costs.
Medicare cost $396.5 billion in 2010
and is projected to rise to $502.8
billion in 2016. At that pace, spending
on the program would have doubled
between 2002 and 2016."
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Converting the program for coverage to
the poor only would still not end the
plans' involvement in workers'
compensation and in fact may only
increase it. The dichotomy between
rich and poor will increase.
The numbers of uninsured are growing as
well as the working elderly.
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It is anticipated that Medicare premium
costs will continue to increase under
the present plan and wealthy Americans
will opt-out. This proposal will merely
mean a universal opt-out plan leaving
the Federal program strapped for cash.
The premium base needs to be increased
rather than diminished.
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As Peter Rousmaniere, a noted workers'
compensation commentator, recently
observed, the workers' compensation
program has "leaks in the system."
Occupational disease claims will
continue to be denied at increasing
rates, and the cost shifting will merely
be perpetuated from workers compensation
to the taxpayers. Just ending Medicare
will not solve the problems with the
Workers' Compensation medical delivery
system.
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