A key feature of the plan Obama now is submitting for the federal budget year beginning Oct. 1 is a revised inflation adjustment called ‘‘chained CPI.’’ This new formula would effectively curb annual increases in a broad swath of government programs, but would have its biggest impact on Social Security. By encompassing Obama’s offer to Boehner, R-Ohio, the plan will also include reductions in Medicare spending, much of it by targeting payments to health care providers and drug companies.
He's offered this for over a month, what would change now?
So to fix the problem, instead of cutting the program overall which would also include adminstration, you want to cut payments to doctors and drug companies?
How about you just cut and not raise taxes? Cut down on the government and let more people keep their money to put to use.
Fix the problem he and Dems created through ACA? lol
So to fix the problem, instead of cutting the program overall which would also include adminstration, you want to cut payments to doctors and drug companies?
How about you just cut and not raise taxes? Cut down on the government and let more people keep their money to put to use.
I think he offered this up during the grand bargin. Your right, what would change now?
You realize that Medicare has some of the lowest administrative costs in the country already, right?
And it is still the largest program, with just fraud and improper claims accounting for $48 billion in waste a year and just because it has the lowest doesn't mean it doesn't have a lot.
You realize that cutting administration would likely increase the fraud and improper claims levels, right?
We could just cut medicare all together and save trillions.
And your solution for health care coverage for those currently covered is...?
So we are stuck between a rock and a hard place?
Increase money to adminstration to save on costs of fraud or cut money in general and lose money in fraud? That's government.
Or...
We could just cut medicare all together and save trillions.
So we are stuck between a rock and a hard place?
Increase money to adminstration to save on costs of fraud or cut money in general and lose money in fraud? That's government.
Or...
We could just cut medicare all together and save trillions.
Great! So lets not have seniors get any affordable medical treatment.
Your arguments really aren't making much sense. You're simultaneously complaining about fraud and waste while advocating for things that would increase fraud and waste.
Now you want to eliminate Medicare in its entirety? Maybe you could be more clear about how this would save 'trillions'? The only way you could save that much would be to no longer give the health care to the elderly that Medicare currently provides. Somehow I doubt you are advocating this. If you meant that you wanted to privatize Medicare this would actually cost us as a society more as Medicare is a more efficient provider of health care than private insurance.
Private, charity or none.
Why is this a good idea?
Private, charity or none.
Because the socialized model is broken because if you have population shifts there will always be a crisis in terms of cost. Offload that risk and put it on people to take care of themselves.