VaYank5150
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Accountable Care Organizations ... Medicare beneficiaries are going to be assigned to them involuntarily by the government. Thus, many seniors who today enjoy complete freedom of choice of physicians could find themselves in an ACO in which their physician has a financial incentive to steer them away from the specialists they have normally used for care.
The Medicare Advantage (MA) program allows Medicare beneficiaries to voluntarily elect to take their Medicare entitlement in the form of a fixed monthly payment to an authorized private insurance plan. ObamaCare drastically reduces payments to MA plans. On average, MA enrollees will lose $3,714 worth of extra services by 2017 due to the MA reductions in ObamaCare. These reductions will also mean that 7.4 million beneficiaries who would have enrolled in MA in 2017 will be forced into less preferable options by the MA cuts. Thats a full 50% reduction in expected MA enrollment.
The Medicare drug benefit, enacted in 2003, provides insurance coverage for annual above a deductible but below $2,700 and above $6,154 (these are 2009 levels). The gap between $2,700 and $6,154 is called the donut hole. ObamaCare phases out this gap by gradually increasing the $2,700 limit.
The Congressional Budget Office has determined that this plan will raise per prescription costs in Medicare because it will discourage generic substitution in the donut hole. With full government-subsidized insurance coverage, many seniors will end up using more expensive branded products with no measurable change in the quality of their care.
Medicare | ObamaCare Watch
So Yank ... please tell us all which benefits, specifically, will be cut with Romney/Ryan.
Nothing in your piece talks about losing (cutting) of benefits. Please specifically state which ones have been and which ones will be lost. Then I'll explain Ryan's plan to eliminate MediCare altogether and move to a private voucher system, as he rolled it out...
are you stupid or something? Don't bother posting anything else. It's obvious you live in a fantasy world.
Run away....run away...pretty sad coming from a Buckeye.