Comments on: MA Healthcare Plan Going In The Red http://rightvoices.com/2007/11/18/ma-healthcare-plan-going-in-the-red/ in all matter of opinion, our adversaries are insane. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:43:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: FrmrArtyOffcr http://rightvoices.com/2007/11/18/ma-healthcare-plan-going-in-the-red/comment-page-1/#comment-674102 FrmrArtyOffcr Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:10:17 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/11/18/ma-healthcare-plan-going-in-the-red/#comment-674102 There is a bit of information that the socialized medicine crowd needs to learn. Medicare/medicaid has announced that by their estimates, the operating cost for a medical office has risen approximately 18 percent over the last 6 years. That is the last time that they raised their payments to Doctors for services rendered. With that information in hand, they have announced a plan to reduce payments by 40% over the next 9 years. The result will be that medicare/medicaid intends to, in 9 years, be paying 40% less for the covered services than than they did 6 years ago. For those who are lacking in math skills, that means that Medicaid/medicare is planning on paying 40% less for services in 2016 than they did in 2001. Does any of the socialized medicine crowd believe that doctors will continue to provide services once their pay is cut by 40%? Which when combined with inflation will result in a net loss in pay of over 60%. BTW this information is from a flyer being distributed by the AMA. Hardly a conservative Republican organization. Perhaps we should insist on cutting Congress's pay by 60%. They certainly are not earning their $165k+ paychecks. I heard a really stupid person say that government funded universal health coverage wouldn't effect him because he has really good coverage from his employer. What he fails to understand is that once the government starts providing health coverage (It's not HEALTH CARE, it's health insurance) his employer will have a huge incentive to drop the company plan. WHY? Because the company will be paying for the universal plan through taxes, so there won't be the money available to pay for the private plan he now enjoys. The moron will be voting himself a substandard plan and he's too stupid to realize it. There is a bit of information that the socialized medicine crowd needs to learn. Medicare/medicaid has announced that by their estimates, the operating cost for a medical office has risen approximately 18 percent over the last 6 years. That is the last time that they raised their payments to Doctors for services rendered. With that information in hand, they have announced a plan to reduce payments by 40% over the next 9 years. The result will be that medicare/medicaid intends to, in 9 years, be paying 40% less for the covered services than than they did 6 years ago. For those who are lacking in math skills, that means that Medicaid/medicare is planning on paying 40% less for services in 2016 than they did in 2001. Does any of the socialized medicine crowd believe that doctors will continue to provide services once their pay is cut by 40%? Which when combined with inflation will result in a net loss in pay of over 60%. BTW this information is from a flyer being distributed by the AMA. Hardly a conservative Republican organization. Perhaps we should insist on cutting Congress’s pay by 60%. They certainly are not earning their $165k+ paychecks.

I heard a really stupid person say that government funded universal health coverage wouldn’t effect him because he has really good coverage from his employer. What he fails to understand is that once the government starts providing health coverage (It’s not HEALTH CARE, it’s health insurance) his employer will have a huge incentive to drop the company plan. WHY? Because the company will be paying for the universal plan through taxes, so there won’t be the money available to pay for the private plan he now enjoys. The moron will be voting himself a substandard plan and he’s too stupid to realize it.

]]> By: TedintheShed http://rightvoices.com/2007/11/18/ma-healthcare-plan-going-in-the-red/comment-page-1/#comment-673116 TedintheShed Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:55:52 +0000 http://rightvoices.com/2007/11/18/ma-healthcare-plan-going-in-the-red/#comment-673116 Doomed to failure, just like a national healthcare plan would be... just like So-cial Security... just like Medicare... Why are weattempting the already proven-to-fail ideas of social-ism? Doomed to failure, just like a national healthcare plan would be…

just like So-cial Security…
just like Medicare…

Why are weattempting the already proven-to-fail ideas of social-ism?

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