Obamacare is being pushed in Congress while at the same time medicare cuts are planned for January 2010 which will hurt cardiac and cancer patients. Medicare will not be paying doctors enough to cover the treatments if the new policy passes. Okay, so we promise universal health care while at the same time depriving some people of health care. . .Washington.
If enacted as scheduled on Jan. 1, 2010, policy changes recommended by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) -- the government's insurer for the elderly and disabled -- will severely cut current Medicare reimbursements to cardiologists and oncologists for critical care services that are provided to patients in physicians' offices or other out-of-hospital setting, such as chemotherapy to treat cancer, and various cardiac procedures to monitor and treat heart disease, such as nuclear imaging and heart catheterization.
And this is interesting from Newsweek, "The Case for Killing Granny." Werent' we told Palin was all wrong about death panels?
Even Obama supporters question the feasibility of his plan.
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