President Declares War On Seniors With ObamaCare Ploys And Medicare Plans

 

"President Obama has been attacking Republicans on Medicare, claiming that they will end Medicare as we know it.  Yet, the President’s health care reform law has put in place measures that assure that Medicare as we know it will no longer be available for seniors in the very near future.  As a physician, I believe seniors should know what those changes are.

1. the Affordable Care Act – or as the president likes to refer to it, ObamaCare – cuts $716 billion out of Medicare to pay for ObamaCare.  This reduces the money doctors and hospitals will be paid to care for Medicare Seniors ..... do you think they will keep those patients?  Do you think you'll be able to find a doctor who will treat you and lose money?
2.  approximately $200 billion has been eliminated from the popular Medicare Advantage program.   Technically, cut BEFORE now, but the cut has been magically extended until AFTER the election.
3. the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB is a panel of 15 unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats who are charged with cutting the growth of Medicare spending.   This IPAB is the Obama care "DEATH PANEL" we were talking about 3 years ago.
4. President Obama is preparing to require drug companies to pay a rebate to the federal government for prescription drugs sold through the popular Medicare Part D.

One of the chief architects of the [OBAMACARE] law is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist.  He was appointed as a health policy advisor at the Office of Management and Budget and a member of the Federal Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research.  Dr. Emanuel has been critical of the Hippocratic Oath (Journal of the American Medical Association, June 18, 2008), claiming that adherence to it led to the overuse of resources as a result of a physician’s sense of obligation to “help the sick to the best of my ability and judgment as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of cost or effect on others.”

Dr. Emanuel has advocated a “complete lives system” in which scarce resources can be allocated.  In this system, patients between age 15 and 40 get the most care, while the very young and the elderly have a lower chance of intervention; the young because we have not “invested” in them as yet, and the elderly because there will be less “return on investment” (Lancet, Jan 31, 2009). "     [CNS News]