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Jen the Michigander


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Dick Morris: Why Democrats Are Doomed if ObamaCare Passes (RCP 3/20/10)
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Normally, I wouldn't post an article by the toe sucker here. But since it looks like Obamacare is going to pass, I figured we need to look at what's going to happen next...

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/20/why_democrats_are_doomed_if_obamacare_passes_104860.html

Entire cities will be without one doctor in important specialties who will take care of the elderly on Medicare. Particularly in fields like G.I. care or arthritic and joint pain, doctors will simply refuse to accept the low reimbursement rates they are being offered and hospitals will refuse all but emergency care to Medicare patients. In effect, the elderly will experience a doctors’ strike against Medicare patients.

Congress, faced with this massive revolt coming right on the verge of the election, may back down and postpone the cuts. Originally, doctor reimbursement rates were scheduled to drop on March 1 of this year, but Congress postponed it until the fall. Now the Democrats in Congress will face not only cuts in doctors’ fees but in all forms of Medicare reimbursement — the so-called “market basket” of cuts programmed into Obamacare.

Congress, being Congress, will probably seek to postpone the cuts until after Election Day. But in doing so, they would expose the deficit-reduction and cost-containment features of Obama’s bill for the fraud that they are. The news media headlines would blare that Congress just voted to add tens or hundreds of billions to the deficit, and the big-spending, high-borrowing image of Congress will worsen. All pretense that Obamacare is not a reckless spending bill will be stripped away, and we will be face to face with the reality that it will add hugely to the deficit.
All this will come at precisely the time that House and Senate Democrats are scrambling to rebut the attacks of their Republican challengers over these very issues. If Congress votes to postpone the Medicare cuts, as a former secretary of health and human services predicted to me, they will have to answer for their fiscal irresponsibility right before the election.

Either poison — the cuts or the deficit — will be enough to eradicate an entire generation of House and Senate Democrats.

And these cuts will take place against a backdrop of continuing increases in health insurance premiums, no expansion of coverage (it doesn’t kick in until 2013) and no tangible benefit from the Obama bill.

This is the prospect the House and Senate Democrats who vote for Obamacare will face in the fall of 2010. This is the record they will have to defend.

The Medicare cuts scare me. My parents are on Medicare. They're in their 70s, both have ongoing health problems, and they have to take a lot of expensive meds. This is going to hurt them.

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It's very scary, indeed!

There are already some Walgreens that will not be accepting Medicare payments after April 16th. 2010. They are trying to jump ahead of the game, before the new lower payments come into affect.
Much like what the credit card companies did, when the new regulations were coming. Peoples rates went up 4 to 5%, cards started charging yearly fees that they hadn't charged before, and limits were lowered on many.

With the government that we have today, as far as the people go......It's a no win situation.
We deserve better than this!

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