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'We'd like not to find out...' What Obamacare Does to Medicare

By Joseph Lawler on 7.13.11 @ 4:04PM

The House Budget Committee, under Rep. Paul Ryan, has been adept at releasing clips that get to the heart of an issue. Here, Rep. Tom Price asks Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services chief Richard Foster to describe what would happen to Medicare if the cuts to doctors' payments enacted as part of Obamacare take hold:

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Occam's Tool| 7.13.11 @ 7:59PM

Very Bad things, I'm sure. We hate Medicare to begin with...

Nite| 7.13.11 @ 11:29PM

Seniors are afraid of Paul Ryan's bill because the Dems have been exercising fear factor. However, what the Dems have planned via Obamacare is far far worse. Half a trillion dollars out of Medicare and spend it elsewhere. Independent Payment Advisory Board reporting to Obama, made up of 15 unelected, unconfirmed so called experts, who love the British Healthcare System with widespread rationing. If you go over a certain amount of costs, then services will be cut to seniors (rationing) Sharply cut payments to hospitals and physicians, in fact so low that it will be nearly impossible to find a physician who will take Medicare. That may happen to hospitals too.

hilda| 7.13.11 @ 11:38PM

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Rosetta Stone | 7.14.11 @ 5:52AM

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