obama did raid medicare. That's undeniable.
Ryan is being unfair to obama because he's showing off those arms and because he has a mother already receiving medicare and KNOWS just how the theft of billions from the system affects her. obama can only make up stories about his mother.
Fact-Checking the Obama Campaign's Defense of its $716 Billion Cut to Medicare - Forbes
Obamacare cut $716 billion from Medicare in order to fund $1.9 trillion in new health care spending, through the lawÂ’s expansion of Medicaid and its new subsidized exchanges.
Of the $716 billion in cuts, $415 billion come in the form of “updates to fee-for-service payment rates,” a euphemism for reducing Medicare’s payments to doctors and hospitals. But what happens when you reduce payments to doctors? Doctors stop being willing to see Medicare patients. And if you can’t actually get a doctor’s appointment, what does it really matter what your insurance plan covers on paper?
We already see this happening in the Medicaid program, where sick and injured children canÂ’t get appointments to deal with urgent medical conditions, because Medicaid so severely underpays doctors relative to private insurers. By the end of this decade, under Obamacare, Medicare reimbursement rates are set to fall below those of Medicaid.