The Dem’s nationalized health care plan will increase costs $289 billion.
The Hill reported:
The House-approved healthcare overhaul would raise the costs of healthcare by $289 billion over the next 10 years, according to an analysis by the chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
The CMS report is a blow to the White House and House Democrats who have vowed that healthcare reform would curb the growth of healthcare spending. CMS’s analysis is not an apples-to-apples comparison to the cost estimate conducted by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) because CMS did not review tax provisions, which help offset the price tag of the Democrats’ measure.
And then there’s this… Medicare paid over $47 billion in suspect claims this past year.
And get this… Even “60 Minutes” is reporting that medicare fraud is bigger than the drug business.
November 14th, 2009 | 7:32 pm | #1
Control is all that it is about.
November 14th, 2009 | 7:43 pm | #2
Shocked I tell you. Just shocked!
…….ok, maybe not…..
November 14th, 2009 | 8:14 pm | #3
Take two earmarks and call me in the morning….
November 14th, 2009 | 8:22 pm | #4
How soon will this mess crush us all after it has been passed illegally? Within ten minutes?
November 14th, 2009 | 9:02 pm | #5
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November 14th, 2009 | 9:11 pm | #6
Members of Congress use Medicare fraud cost as a reason for Obama/PelosiCare.
How twisted is that? They are inviting fraud on a grander scale if that horrible bill gets passed.
November 14th, 2009 | 9:13 pm | #7
Michelle Obama said yesterday we could keep insurance and that her husband ‘believes that Medicare is a sacred part of America’s social safety net, and it’s a safety net that he will protect’.
Did he bow to ‘hide’ what this CNS study says?
http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/11/obama-bowed-to-cover-this-centers-for-medicaremedicaid-services-cms-analysis-house-passed-pelosicare.html
November 14th, 2009 | 9:38 pm | #8
In case you missed Rush Friday he had a caller who worked for an insurance company who said the company was setting up a plan that would send people to Costa Rica for treatment.
What is really sad is all the millions of people who worked and either directly or indirectly contributed to the health care we get today and under the death care plan these people will be robbed of it.
November 14th, 2009 | 11:07 pm | #9
Yea, though we walk through the valley of Pelosicare . . .
November 15th, 2009 | 8:00 am | #10
my sister who works in a hospital in Victoria was just telling me the other day how a hospital I think she said in Port Lavaca or somewhere close to her like that, is pretty much ‘going down’. It is due 78,000 dollars from Medicare payments that the government has not honored, this from what I can remember from our conversation. They might have to close. She is so against the government takeover of healthcare since she knows it will just shut down many hospitals that wont be able to withstand the poor payments from government programs like Medicare. Not only that, she has to work with Canadian nurses who had to come all the way down here to find work since the government takeover in Canada bankrupt many hospitals up there and left medical workers without work and had to go south to find a way to make a living…in our hospitals. Great…when the gov takes over our system, where will all of our out of work medical staff go to find work. Its like a domino effect. The government cheapens life and thus cheapens the work docs and nurses do by reducing what they can earn and are paid for services, hospitals close, workers get frustrated, and the leave to other countries that the government hasnt smothered yet. Lovely. Where does that leave those of US left here to deal with government hospitals? Just lovely.
November 15th, 2009 | 8:33 am | #11
Much of the impetus for this bill is because Medicare is failing, and no one has the political will to take it on, certainly not directly. It was explained to me by an M.D. (Lefty) that the issue is that in his practice all REVENUE is FIXED, (e.g. private insurance payments, or Medicare), but COST is variable, and always tends to exceed the cost basis, which is DETERMINED BY MEDICARE. So, instead of attacking the costing of services, and right-sizing Medicare, congress does the MOST, communist thing imaginable, attack private insurance!!?? WTF, it makes no sense!
It’s like trying to fix social security by attacking 401K’s. Ooops, I guess I should keep my mouth shut. Is it 2010 yet?
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