House moves to protect doctors from Medicare cuts

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans denounced as a political payoff....

 

By ERICA WERNER

 

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[ImWithStupid]

And here's the smokescreen to hide the cost of Obamacare. Well that and the fact that it's designed to tax now but not pay out until 2013, after the 2012 elections when the true costs, ramifications and consequences will be seen.

[timesjoke]

And the costs look lower over the ten year mark because benefits being paid out will not start for the first 4 or 5 years. If they did a full ten years of active benefits you see it costs almost 2 trillion dollars in that ten years.

 

 

Many doctors have said they will retire, some early if the Government gets into the insurance business and reduced medicare payments. Right now, without any changes did you guys know that if a medicare patient has more than one issue, doctors are not allowed to bill for more than one issue at the same time so these patients have to make a 'new' appointment for each individual issue they have so the doctor can get paid for his services connected to each seperate problem.

 

 

The real issue in this is how to pay for it, and every new idea upsets someone. I don't think anything will get enough support to pass. Each time they add somethign to gain favor of a few people, they lose other people who do not want that added.