Obama , Senior Citizens And Obamacare
Is Obama Treating Senior Citizens Like He Did Auto ‘Clunkers’?
For almost 50 years Medicare has enabled seniors to get health care. But Obamacare is ready to change that; by limiting what doctors can provide their senior citizen patients.
If you don't pay to maintain and repair your car what happens? It soon wears out and becomes one of the clunkers that elitist progressive Barack Hussein Obama got rid of. Without the health care our senior citizens need they will become disabled, worn out, parked in wheelchairs or nursing homes. In essence, senior citizens to Obama become clunkers.
The Senate Finance Committee Obamacare health bill released last week controls doctors by cutting their pay if they give older patients more care than the government deems appropriate. Section 3003(b) (p. 683) punishes doctors who land in the 90th percentile or above on what they provide for seniors on Medicare by withholding 5 percent of their compensation.
This provision for withholding forces doctors to choose between treating their patients and avoiding government penalties. HMOs used the same cost-cutting device in the early '90s until it was deemed dangerous to patients and outlawed. Now, lawmakers want to use it against the most vulnerable patients, the elderly. This bill and four others under negotiation also would slash about $500 billion from future Medicare funding.
President Obama and his budget director, Peter Orszag, have told seniors not to worry, claiming that Medicare spending could be cut by as much as 30 percent without doing harm. They cite the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare 2008, which tries to prove patients who get less care fewer hospital days, doctors' visits and imaging tests have the same medical "outcomes" as patients who get more care. But read the fine print.
The Dartmouth authors arrived at their dubious conclusion by restricting their study to patients who died. They examined what Medicare paid to care for these chronically ill patients in their last two years. By definition, the outcomes were all the same: death. The Dartmouth study didn't consider patients who recovered, left the hospital and even resumed active lives. It would be important to know whether these patients survived because they received more care.
The cuts in Medicare funding in Obamacare, Obama’s “savings" will mean less health care for seniors in coping with aging and possibly shorter lives. Do we really want to treat our seniors like clunkers?
Join with us America to protect our senior citizens, your rights and your country. We are ready to defend our rights and tell the truth the elitist progressive main stream media won’t tell you. Comment here and email us at YourVoice@speaknowconservatives.org. Help us and be part of bringing our Great Christian country back.
For almost 50 years Medicare has enabled seniors to get health care. But Obamacare is ready to change that; by limiting what doctors can provide their senior citizen patients.
If you don't pay to maintain and repair your car what happens? It soon wears out and becomes one of the clunkers that elitist progressive Barack Hussein Obama got rid of. Without the health care our senior citizens need they will become disabled, worn out, parked in wheelchairs or nursing homes. In essence, senior citizens to Obama become clunkers.
The Senate Finance Committee Obamacare health bill released last week controls doctors by cutting their pay if they give older patients more care than the government deems appropriate. Section 3003(b) (p. 683) punishes doctors who land in the 90th percentile or above on what they provide for seniors on Medicare by withholding 5 percent of their compensation.
This provision for withholding forces doctors to choose between treating their patients and avoiding government penalties. HMOs used the same cost-cutting device in the early '90s until it was deemed dangerous to patients and outlawed. Now, lawmakers want to use it against the most vulnerable patients, the elderly. This bill and four others under negotiation also would slash about $500 billion from future Medicare funding.
President Obama and his budget director, Peter Orszag, have told seniors not to worry, claiming that Medicare spending could be cut by as much as 30 percent without doing harm. They cite the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare 2008, which tries to prove patients who get less care fewer hospital days, doctors' visits and imaging tests have the same medical "outcomes" as patients who get more care. But read the fine print.
The Dartmouth authors arrived at their dubious conclusion by restricting their study to patients who died. They examined what Medicare paid to care for these chronically ill patients in their last two years. By definition, the outcomes were all the same: death. The Dartmouth study didn't consider patients who recovered, left the hospital and even resumed active lives. It would be important to know whether these patients survived because they received more care.
The cuts in Medicare funding in Obamacare, Obama’s “savings" will mean less health care for seniors in coping with aging and possibly shorter lives. Do we really want to treat our seniors like clunkers?
Join with us America to protect our senior citizens, your rights and your country. We are ready to defend our rights and tell the truth the elitist progressive main stream media won’t tell you. Comment here and email us at YourVoice@speaknowconservatives.org. Help us and be part of bringing our Great Christian country back.
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Posted by JTDCON2009 at 10/29/2009 2:03 AM 
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