Conservative
Type 40
Government auditors call for end to $8 billion Medicare bonus program
So... Obama makes cuts to Medicare in ACA... Dems could care less.
Obama throws extra money at medicare to help defray his own cuts... Dems could care less.
Republicans fought Obama's cuts to Medicare... Dems accuse the GOP of 'killing granny'.
Now the GAO says the 8 billion Obama is trying to use to defray his own cuts to Medicare, is a political ploy and should be ended. I wonder if the Dems care?
In a rebuke to the Obama administration, government auditors are calling for the cancellation of an $8 billion Medicare program that congressional Republicans have criticized as a political ploy.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says in a report to be released Monday that the $8.3 billion the administration has earmarked for quality bonuses to Medicare Advantage insurance plans would postpone the pain of cuts to the plans under the new health care law. Most of the money would go to plans rated merely average.
The administration is defending the program, saying that without the bonuses many plans wouldn't have an incentive to improve quality.
President Barack Obama's health care law trimmed Medicare Advantage to compensate for prior years of overpayments that had allowed the plans to offer attractive benefits -- and pocket healthy profits.
Republicans fiercely attacked those cuts during their successful campaign to take control of the House in the 2010 midterm elections. Seniors, a key constituency of swing voters, responded by backing GOP candidates.
So... Obama makes cuts to Medicare in ACA... Dems could care less.
Obama throws extra money at medicare to help defray his own cuts... Dems could care less.
Republicans fought Obama's cuts to Medicare... Dems accuse the GOP of 'killing granny'.
Now the GAO says the 8 billion Obama is trying to use to defray his own cuts to Medicare, is a political ploy and should be ended. I wonder if the Dems care?