Obamacare, medicare and senior deaths ... thx Judi C and "Petey" K!

XXX forwarded the article to me and I can tell you it is at least 95% correct especially the fact that Congress was exempt. I am enclosing another article that explains the result of the law.The Organization it comes from is very reputable .

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Medicare Cuts Killing Seniors

Posted Friday, May 13, 2016   |

 

  By The Association of Mature American Citizens<http://amac.us/author/the-association-of-mature-american-citizens/>   |

   

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[medicare (2)]from – CFIF.org<http://cfif.org/v/> – by Betsy McCaughey

President Obama’s Medicare cuts are killing seniors. His health law changed Medicare, adding bonuses for hospitals that spend the least per senior. The result? Hundreds of hospitals are skimping on care to win bonuses. Seniors at these hospitals aren’t getting the right antibiotic or other treatments they need. They’re dying from pneumonia, heart attacks and heart failure at higher rates than patients in other hospitals that provide more care.
So much for Obama’s promise that cutting Medicare wouldn’t harm seniors.

News of the deaths at low spending hospitals, reported in Health Affairs, comes just as GOP front-runner Donald Trump meets with House Speaker Paul Ryan. Medicare cuts are on the long list of policy disagreements between the two Republicans. Trump pledges not to cut Medicare. Ryan and GOP members of Congress are pushing to repeal Obamacare but want to keep Obama’s Medicare cuts. Trump is right on this one.

The report found that 231 hospitals rewarded with Medicare bonuses for low spending per senior provide inferior care. Seniors having heart attacks wait too long for angioplasties, for example. They’re dying when they would survive at a higher-spending hospital.

Sec. 3001 of The Affordable Care Act claims to tie these bonuses to “quality” but hospitals can win the most points — and biggest Medicare bonuses — by spending the least. Never mind who perishes.

The Obama administration was warned that rewarding low-spending hospitals could be dangerous to seniors’ health. Reports in the journal Circulation and in the Archives of Internal Medicine showed more deaths at low-spending hospitals. In fact, 17,822 seniors who died over four years in the lowest-spending hospitals in California would have survived with more care.

Bonuses aren’t the only dangerous incentives built into the president’s health law. Obamacare overhauls how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals. Providers keep more for themselves when their patients get fewer tests, see fewer specialists, and go directly home from the hospital without recuperating at rehab. More money for less care. It sets up a conflict of interest between patients and doctors.

When Medicare was enacted in 1965, the law barred the government from interfering in how doctors treated patients. Over the decades, that protection eroded slightly, but Obamacare guts it entirely, turning the financial screws on doctors and hospitals to limit care.
Ignoring this reality, the Clinton campaign is road-testing a new scaremongering attack against Trump, calling him a “heartless tycoon” who would put Medicare at risk.

The truth is, Trump vows to undo Obamacare’s Medicare cuts. The heartless ones are the Democrats, who are willing to slash Medicare to pay for Obamacare. Subsidies for health plan buyers on the exchanges will cost $800 billion in the next decade. And to pay the tab, Medicare will be cut by precisely that amount over the same period, says the Congressional Budget Office.

The Democrats’ agenda is clear: Robbing Grandma to pay for a new entitlement for younger constituents.

Republicans should repeal all of Obamacare, including the Medicare cuts, so seniors will get the care they need.
Unfortunately, that is not Ryan’s plan. His GOP replacement for Obamacare — soon to be unveiled — will include subsidies for consumers to buy health plans. It’s Obamacare lite — a new entitlement paid for by continuing the Medicare cuts. That’s morally wrong.
No Republican health bill should be paid for on the backs of seniors.

As for Medicare’s finances, they’re in trouble. Medicare Trustees predict the Hospital Fund will go dry by 2030. Obama’s Medicare cuts didn’t help, because he spent the “savings” on his costly health law.

Republican proposals, like raising the eligibility age, asking wealthier seniors for higher premiums and adding private plan options, would help keep Medicare solvent. Trump and Ryan probably won’t discuss these details on Thursday. But one lesson they must take away from the grim report on hospital skimping: Medicare reform should not cost seniors their lives.

Medicare Part X ... Thx Marge R!

Medicare Part X - NEW SENIORS PROGRAM....             You're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you. So what do you do?   Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Politicians!!   Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!   Need new teeth? No problem. Need new glasses? No problem. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They're all covered.   As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.   And who will be paying for all of this? It's the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a nursing home.   And you can get rid of 4 useless politicians while you are at it. Just look how happy Mary is in the photo!   The best part of this program is now that you're a prisoner, you don't have to pay any taxes anymore.   Is this a great country or what?

Medicare X ... Thanks Dr. H.!

Subject: Medicare Part X

A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life wrote a blank check payable to "The United States of America" for an amount "up to and including his life." That is honor, there are too many people in this country who no longer understand this. . "God Bless Our Veterans"

Medicare Part X

"NEW SENIOR PROGRAM....
New Medicare Program

You're a sick senior citizen and the government says there is no nursing home available for you. So what do you do?

Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. You are allowed to shoot four Politicians.

Of course, this means you will be sent to prison where you will get three meals a day, a roof over your head, central heating, air conditioning and all the health care you need!
Need new teeth? No problem. Need glasses? That’s great. Need a new hip, knees, kidney, lungs or heart? They’re all covered.

As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you as often as they do now.

And who will be paying for all of this? It’s the same government that just told you that you they cannot afford for you to go into a home.

And you can get rid of 4 useless politicians while you are at it.

Plus, and because you are a prisoner, you don't have to pay any income taxes anymore.

Is this a great country or what? "

$8 Billion coincidence ... Thanks Fred R. and George K. (my brother) !

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The last statement says it all

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Medicare increases- obamacare ... thanks Lou f.!

Food for thought............... I know this has been around, but it is still eye opening. ............... A hefty increase in excess of 100% A message from Blue Cross Blue Shield Professor Emeritus John W. Hill, JD, PhD Kelley School of Business , Indiana University Attached Message MEDICARE Look closely at the 2014 rate compared to the 2013 rate. For those of you who are on Medicare, read the following. It's short, but important and you probably haven't heard about it in the Mainstream News: "The per person Medicare Insurance Premium will increase from the present Monthly Fee of $96.40, rising to: $104.20 in 2012 $120.20 in 2013 And $247.00 in 2014." These are Provisions incorporated in the Obamacare Legislation, purposely delayed so as not to confuse the 2012 Re-Election Campaigns. Send this to all Seniors that you know, so they will know who's throwing them under the bus.

Medicare premium increases ... Thanks John Massey!

By now some of you may have gotten your notice from Social Security about your increase in your monthly Social Security check, welllllll check your MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE:

.... look at 2014

MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE

For those of you who are on Medicare, read the article below. It's a short but important article that you probably haven't heard about in the mainstream news:

The per person Medicare insurance premium will increase from the present monthly fee of

$ 96.40, rising to:

$104.20 in 2012;

$120.20 in 2013;

And

$247.00 in 2014.

These are provisions incorporated in the Obama care legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns.

Send this to all seniors that you know, so they will know who's throwing them under the bus.

Govt. still digging in our retirement pile

Medicare monthly premiums will go up to $104.20 in 2012 and $247.00 in 2014 due to "provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns."

Chain e-mail on Saturday, September 24th, 2011 in a chain e-mail



Medicare premiums going up due to “Obamacare”? Chain e-mail gets it wrong



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A chain e-mail going around warns of a Medicare premium increase, saying monthly premiums will go up from $96.40 to $247 in 2014. Blame it all on "Obamacare," the e-mail says.



Here’s the full text of the copy we received:



MEDICARE PREMIUM INCREASE



For those of you who are on Medicare, read the article below. It's a

short but important article that you probably haven't heard about in

the mainstream news:



The per person Medicare insurance premium will increase from the

present monthly fee of



$ 96.40, rising to:



$104.20 in 2012;



$120.20 in 2013; And



$247.00 in 2014.



These are provisions incorporated in the Obamacare legislation,

purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election

campaigns.



Send this to all seniors that you know, so they will know who's

throwing them under the bus.

Medicare coverage in a nutshell ... Thanks Sarah Rapp!

MEDICARE COVERAGE IN A NUTSHELL



The phone rings and the lady of the house answers, 'Hello..'



'Mrs. Sanders, please.'



'Speaking.'



'Mrs.. Sanders, this is Doctor Jones at Saint Agnes Laboratory. When your husband's doctor sent his biopsy to the lab last week, a biopsy from another Mr. Sanders arrived as well. We are now uncertain which one belongs to your husband. Frankly, either way the results are not too good.'



'What do you mean?' Mrs.. Sanders asks nervously.



'Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for HIV.... We can't tell which is which.'



'That's dreadful! Can you do the test again?', questioned Mrs. Sanders..



'Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time.'



'Well, what am I supposed to do now?'



'The folks at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town . . If he finds his way home . . don't sleep with him.'

Costs for Medicare under 0'care... Thanks Ron Walters!

Subject: Fwd: SOCIAL SECURITY (OBAMA CARE)



Subject: Fwd: SOCIAL SECURITY (OBAMA CARE)



Here we go!!! Look out



MEDICARE PAY INCREASE



For those of you who are on Medicare, read the article below.

...It is about the monthly amount of money you are going to pay into Medicare in 2011, 2012 and the huge increase you will pay in 2013. It's a short important article: You will pay it.



Social Security

Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment). However, the per person monthly Medicare insurance premium was increased from the 2009 premium of $96.40 to $104.20

In 2010, it was $120.20 for the year.

In 2011 You will be paying yearly increases to a wonderful $247.00 in 2014.

Thank You Obamacare!



Congress also gave themselves a $3,000 a month Cost of Living Adjustment!

They really need the money! -- You don't!



Send this to all seniors (and future seniors) that you know.



REMEMBER!

Tea Party reps-  Do your job and get rid of this monster!

SamKat