[ SHOWGSD-L ] government run health care and more nonsense
- From: "pmick12" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:29:05 -0500
By breeching the historic dividing line between private and public plans now
at 65, it opens the door for an expansion of Medicare to become just the
single payer.
How can you expand Medicare potentially to tens of millions more people
while cutting it by $500 billion?
The cuts in doctor and hospital reimbursement rates written into this bill
will force hundreds of thousands of medical providers to refuse to treat
Medicare patients. By applying these low reimbursements to patients 55-64,
now, you are driving doctors out of the profession and discouraging others
from entering it. A permanent scarcity of doctors will be the inevitable
result.
The expansion of Medicaid to 150% of the poverty level imposes huge new
financial burdens on states. It will cost Texas $3 billion, Pennsylvania $2
billion, California $2 billion, and Florida $1.3 billion. It will cost
Arkansas and Louisiana $500 million each. This is net of federal aid and
only counts the 10% share of expanded Medicaid costs the states must pay.
How anyone can believe this is going to benefit us is beyond me.
peggy
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