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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Re: Obama's Medicare cuts by 716 billion, MSM silent

Yes Lynn, they do know what is in the bill as passed...

Go read

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81521.html

And yes to defunding Medicare Advantage, which Obama dose not like, but millions of Seniors do..



On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:06:34 PM UTC-5, Lynne wrote:
Does anybody really know what's in the bill?

Sent from my Samsung smartphone on AT&T

old fashion liberal <jgg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>No, you are just into the politics of personal destruction rather than
>serious debate.
>
>On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:41:14 PM UTC-5, Larry wrote:
>>
>>  you're still a poor bastard.
>>  
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 07:31:22 -0800
>> From: jgg...@hotmail.com <javascript:>
>> To: opendeb...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>
>> Subject: Re: Obama's Medicare cuts by 716 billion, MSM silent
>>
>> Larry Obamacare required 716 billion in cuts to pay for itself...  Your
>> reply indeed is last year's lie repeated...   Aren't you allowed to think
>> beyond Obama's talking points???
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 26, 2013 9:52:24 AM UTC-5, Larry wrote:
>>
>>  This lie is last year's lie. Can't Faux News feed the Sheeple some new
>> crap?
>>  
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:18:30 -0800
>> From: jgg...@hotmail.com
>> To: opendeb...@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Obama's Medicare cuts by 716 billion, MSM silent
>>
>> funny how this fact was protested by Obama during the debates
>>
>>
>> http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/341528/squeezing-medicare-advantage-john-fund
>>
>> >>>
>> But the Obama administration doesn't want to talk about its own
>> devastating cuts in Medicare. On Friday, February 15, the Centers for
>> Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced $716 billion in cuts over
>> the next ten years. Instead of being put toward the debt, most of the money
>> will go toward a new entitlement: Obamacare's vast expansion of coverage
>> for the uninsured.
>>  
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>>    Where Obama is cutting is telling. At least half of the savings will
>> come out of Medicare Advantage, under which a full 28 percent of seniors
>> buy privately managed health insurance that often includes added benefits
>> such as vision and dental care or chronic-illness management. In exchange,
>> patients agree to stay within a medical network, which helps insurance
>> companies manage their costs. The program is most popular with Hispanics
>> and African Americans. A study by CMS found that 38 percent of Hispanics
>> and 31 percent of African Americans on Medicare were enrolled in Medicare
>> Advantage, compared with 27 percent of whites.
>> Despite the fact that the program reports high levels of consumer
>> satisfaction, liberals are determined to cut it, even if it means driving
>> millions of seniors back into traditional, one-size-fits-all Medicare. "The
>> administration really has it in for Medicare Advantage plans," says Tevi
>> Troy, who was a deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human
>> Services under George W. Bush. "Democrats won't even consider relatively
>> modest reforms of Medicare, such as raising the eligibility age from 65 to
>> 67. But they do want to restrict seniors' choices by curtailing private
>> plans competing in Medicare."
>> To add cynicism to injury, the Obama administration postponed the Medicare
>> Advantage cuts until after the 2012 election, using a slush fund to tide
>> the program over and conceal the true costs of Obamacare to seniors.
>>
>>
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