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American Osteopathic Association President Larry A. Wickless, DO, discusses the Medicare program and the impending 21.2% cut to physician payments that will occur on March 1, 2010, if Congress does not take action. Dr. Wickless calls on all members of the osteopathic family and patients to join an advocacy campaign to preserve access to care for our nation's seniors and military families by preventing the cut to payments and enacting long-term and meaningful reforms to the Medicare payment fomula. |
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Russ Feingold acting hypocritical to a concerned senior citizen in Wisconsin on Medicare being cut in the health care reform. THE TRUTH: 230000 Seniors in Wisconsin will lose the Medicare Advantage benefits under the Senate health care bill. Source: State Health Facts-www.statehealthfacts.org |
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Let’s say you’re the devil, and you want to corrupt the American republic. How would you go about it? According to David Hyman, you might create something like Medicare, the federal health care program for the elderly. Hyman submits that Medicare may be the greatest trick the devil ever played. Medicare feeds on the avarice of doctors and other providers, turns seniors into health care gluttons, and makes regions of the United States green with envy over the dollars showered on other regions. The program exploits the sloth of government officials to increase the tax burden on workers and drag down the quality of care for seniors. Medicare makes Democrats lust for socialized medicine, while its imperviousness to reform makes Republicans angrier and angrier. Most of all, Medicare allows its ideological supporters to bleat and preen their way to the heights of moral vanity. In the style of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters, Hyman writes that Medicare has freed the self-in (more…)
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US Senator George LeMieux discusses the Medicare cuts laid out in the Senate Health Care Bill and the effects they will have on Florida's Seniors. |
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Congressman Boozman spoke on the House Floor about how the health care proposal will hurt seniors who particpate in Medicare Advantage. |
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Shawn Bishop, staffer on Capitol Hill, confirms the CBO analysis that says that $113 billion in cuts to the Medicare Advantage program will result in reduced benefits for its enrollees. Two points to remember: 1. 25% of people on Medicare buy MA plans for the express purpose of gaining better coverage and more benefits; 2. There are an additional $400 billion in proposed "savings" coming at the expense of Medicare in general over 10 years. That represents about 9% of Medicare outlays in that period. |
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Barack Obama accused John McCain of wanting to cut $882 billion from Medicare on Friday, and claims that would mean seniors pay more for drugs, receive fewer services and get lower quality care. (Oct. 17) |
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American Medical Association President Nancy Nielsen, MD responds to the US Senate's vote that protects health insurance company profits at the expense of health care for America's seniors, disabled and military families. She calls on the Senate to return from their July 4th recess and vote to pass HR 6331 to stop Medicare cuts. |
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