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Capitol Hill scam: Cuts to Medicare
Date published: 10/23/2009 Talk about insurance shams! Much of the health care uproar has been to counteract the reported claim that insurance companies change the insurance coverage when the insured person's claims become too costly. What if a person paid premiums of almost 3 percent of his earnings for a period of more than 40 years before filing a single health care claim, and just as he was about to start submitting claims, the insurance company said it was going to reduce the amount paid for treatment by attending physicians by 25 percent? Would one consider this to be an insurance sham? Shouldn't there be an investigation by numerous congressional committees into this failure to honor the insurance policy? Wouldn't we expect to see various senators and representatives lined up in front of microphones acting indignant over this? It is happening. Let me introduce you to Medicare, but don't expect any congressional hearings. Medicare is a health insurance program that was created in 1965 by a Democratic Congress and signed by a Democratic president. The government has required members Now, at the dawn of their being able to start submitting claims, a Democratic Congress, Is it any wonder that the approval rating of Congress is at 21 percent, according to an Oct. 6 Gallup poll? Anthony Dahm Caroline
Date published: 10/23/2009
Beware Mr. Dahm
(posted by
AtackDuck
, Oct. 23, 2009 8:20 am)
Pointing out the obvious or anything that our leftist forum members don't approve of, will result in a foo bird attack.
In the meantime-remember, Mr. Dahm..
(posted by
fireball
, Oct. 23, 2009 7:45 am)
To paraphrase some much more wise than me: What the government giveth, the government taketh away. Can anyone out there honestly say that what is being considered with Medicare 44 years after it creation won't happen with this package 44 years from now-or sooner?
What now?
(posted by
fireball
, Oct. 23, 2009 7:33 am)
Congress is under incredible pressure from both sides of the health care issue. Seniors are making it clear that Medicare has to be off the table, but that makes the price tag too high to guarantee enough votes from the fiscal hawks in both parties. Meanwhile, the left is hunkering down for the public option, and conservatives are going for broke to stop the bill(s) cold. Wherever you are in this debate, you have to agree the next 6 weeks are going to be interesting (to say the least). Stay tuned!
Ironic, huh?
(posted by
fireball
, Oct. 23, 2009 7:25 am)
Because seniors have historically tended Democratic, they have been courted heavily by the left for entitlement programs like Medicare. Since it is becoming increasingly evident that a health care package under $1T will have to include Medicare, that strategy seems to be backfiring. Take the Senate vote the other day on the "Medicare doctor fix" as an example. A vote to move about $250B in Medicare payments off the bill to lower the price tag got slammed with nay votes from both sides of the aisle.
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