It seems to me that the 750 billion taken out of Medicare to give to support Obama Care would help keep the prices low yet they have doubled. Perhaps this should be asked of Hillary since she supports it. To those that are unaware we that work pay in for medicare and then when we retire we still pay in for medicare. Medicare and Medicaid are misunderstood. With Medicaid you do not pay for as it is provided by the government in other words us tax payers.
We that have been paying for Medicare should ask any Republican candidate running for president if this money will be returned to Medicare when Obamacare is no longer in existence.
Obamacare Robs Medicare of $716 Billion to Fund Itself
Good Old Medicare Advantage was wisely defunded.
By the way, have you been sleeping for the last 3 years?
This was from the article:
- A $260 billion payment cut for hospital services.
- A $39 billion payment cut for skilled nursing services.
- A $17 billion payment cut for hospice services.
- A $66 billion payment cut for home health services.
- A $33 billion payment cut for all other services.
- A $156 billion cut in payment rates in Medicare Advantage (MA); $156 billion is before considering interactions with other provisions. The House Ways and Means Committee was able to include interactions with other provisions, estimating the cuts to MA to be even higher, coming in at $308 billion.
- $56 billion in cuts for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments.* DSH payments go to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients.
- $114 billion in other provisions pertaining to Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP* (does not include coverage-related provisions).
Seems that 1/5th was due to MA cuts.
I don't need an article, I was working for a Pain Management doctor, back then and I go to 2 Temples with several hundred senior citizens who were tricked into switching to Medicare Advantage.
Not to mention my very good 5 doctor friends running the largest practice in Town catering to several thousand patients and a few dozen other physicians in my Temples who don't know how not to complain.
It sucked and died a deserved death.
It's become quite clear that you only argue from what you see around you.
If someone sees something else....you really don't care.
If the data says something else....you really don't care.
Your post is irrelevant to the OP which says he kyped 3/4 Billion from medicare.
You said it was MA.....20% was.
That's pretty much the end of this conversation.
That you don't like MA is a subject for another thread.