SAVING MEDICARE

Without reform, Medicare is doomed. This video by some senior citizens contrasts Obamacare with the Republican plan, which passed the House April 2011. You decide.

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[DanDyer4]

Consumers for Healthcare Choices at the Heartland Institute reports that President Obama has "proposed in excess of $750 billion in cuts to [Medicare], nearly all through the further restriction of payments to doctors and providers."

(Consumer Power Report #290: Time to End Mediscare", September 19, 2011)

[DanDyer4]

1. To get jobs, we have to reduce government spending.

2. So, we'll have to reduce spending on Medicare.

3. So, we'll terminate fee-for-service payments to providers.

4. We'll provide defined-contribution health benefits to retirees.

5. We'll give larger benefits to the older, sicker and poorer.

6. We'll get competition in healthcare, innovation, better quality care, and lower costs.

7. The economy will take off.

8. We need a presidential candidate who will advocate this.

[DanDyer4]

Disinformation continues. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee website, dscc.org, states the following: "Republicans ... are willing to end Medicare." "It's gong to be THE issue in the next election." "...if they destroy Medicare they will pay for it." "STOP THE GOP'S PLAN TO END MEDICARE."

Do they really think we are going to fall for lies like these?

[DanDyer4]

‘The [Republican] plan offers the only serious hope of reducing fraud in Medicare and Medicaid.” "Entitlement Bandits", Michael F. Cannon, National Review, July 4, 2011.

[DanDyer4]

“In his book Stop Paying the Crooks, consultant Jim Frogue chronicles more than half a dozen ways that states game Medicaid’s matching-grant system to defraud the federal government. “

“Medicaid even encourages the elderly to get sham divorces” … ”so that Medicaid will pay their nursing-home bills.”

“In 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno declared health-care fraud America’s No. 2 crime problem, after violent crime.”

See "Entitlement Bandits" by Michael F. Cannon, National Review, July 4, 2011.

[DanDyer4]

By "official estimates Medicare and Medicaid lose at least $87 billion per year to fraudulent and otherwise improper payments.”

“For providers, Medicare is like an ATM: So long as they punch in the right numbers, out comes the cash.”

“Since 1986, the GAO has published at least 158 reports about Medicare and Medicaid fraud.”

See "Entitlement Bandits" by Michael F. Cannon, National Review, July 4, 2011.

[DanDyer4]

Low-wage employees have a powerful incentive to bolt an employer's health plan for the newly established and heavily subsidized exchanges. Should employees begin to leave for an exchange, 26 percent of currently offering small employers are very likely to explore dropping their health insurance plans and another 31 percent are somewhat likely to do so.

Source: "PPACA One Year Later: Small Business Owners Expect Costs to Rise," National Federation of Independent Businesses, July 25, 2011.

[DanDyer4]

The Medicare Part D prescription-drug benefit program costs $375 billion, 32% less than the CBO's original estimate. Drug companies compete to sell to private insurers who compete to sell their drug insurance plans to Medicare enrollees. Part D costs have gone down, while other healthcare costs have gone up. Prof. Tomas J. Philipson (Wall St. Journal, 7/26/11, p. A17) argues that the competitive model used in Part D "works and should be extended to other parts of Medicare --- not vice versa."

[jsmaldone1]

This video tells it like it is. I have followed the "Health Care Reform Bill" since it passed. I feel everyone should see this video so they get the truth about what Obamacare is doing to all of us.

The video explains the two plans from each party as good as I have seen it explained before. This only confirms what I have been saying all along. The "Health Care Reform Bill" (Obamacare) MUST be revolked/repealed, period!

Thank you,

John A. Smaldone