President Obama Outlines More than $300 Billion in new Medicare and Medicaid Savings

WHITEHOUSE.GOV ^ | June 13, 2009 | n/a

[mojitojoe]

we can help Americans avoid the unnecessary hospital stays, treatments, and tests that drive up costs.
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P*ss off stupid Kenyan, we all know what that means.

[blueplum]

we can help Americans avoid the unnecessary hospital stays, treatments, and tests that drive up costs.

oh yeah, we check into the hospital for unnecessary stays at least once a month and the hospital lets us. /s.

what world is Zero living in? seriously. And just whom is going to determine what is necessary versus unnecessary? My 77yo dad is a retired career vet. His govt-provided hmo insurance just doubled in the last 2 years. Retirement check deducted. And trying to get his doctor to admit him to the hospital for anything is like pulling teeth! We get a letter once in a while telling Dad what tests to go in for, and a letter afterwards telling us the test results. Haven't laid eyes on his primary care physician in 2 years and counting. And Zero wants me to have this same 'coverage' ???? ya..NO !

[MestaMachine]

coffins...?
Wait. Cremations. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Where have I heard that before?

[Jack Hammer]

Utter, bare-faced BS, all soon to be parroted by the Kool Aid drinkers at the Ministry of Propaganda, otherwise known as the MSM. Knowledge is Ignorance in the new socialist Superstate, and Big Brother will monitor your reaction to insure the appropriate level of enthusiastic credulity.

The nation is sinking under a mountain of debt, which will soon multiply into a mountain range, out from under which the children and grandchildren of today’s voters will never even hope to dig themselves.

[Check6]

ZERO = ZERO

[river rat]

The savings will be realized by denying medical aid to White folks...

It’s really that simple and that easy..
CHUMPS.

[Vaduz]

If the AMA don’t agree with Obama’s health plan you know it has to suck.

[Diogenesis]

[linn37]

I’m confused. If you reduce spending on health care some people are going to be out of work. Now those folks who are in health care that lose their jobs how will they buy windmills,green cars and other whatnot’s? And where are the reductions coming? Is he going to reduce regulations so you don’t have as many paper pushers? My guess is the government takes over the industry and then, like those CEOS who bought into Tarp he controls just how much doctors,nurses and assorted other people needed to provide care get to make.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Without reading the article, I can outline the typical tree easy Beltway steps:
1. I will spend $1 Billion
2. Ok, make that $700 Million
3. Look, I saved $300 Million!!

[EVO X]

If we want to create jobs and rebuild our economy, then we must address the crushing cost of health care this year, in this Administration.”

The best way to do this is allow competition and choice in the system. But that isn't really his goal. His goal is to force us haves to pay for the have nots by raising our taxes/premiums. The people that get the benefit for free wont have any incentive to conserve.

Why do we even need Medicare? People have a whole lifetime to accumulate health care financing for old age..

[M. Espinola]

Any cuts in the federal budget are heading for Obama & Company’s pockets.

[DB]

He’ll increase the medicare budget by $600 billion and then cut it $300 billion and claim he saved $300 billion...

Never mind that medicare still increased by $300 billion...

That’s exactly what he did with federal budget.

And the morons in the press went right along with it...

[Beckwith]

[RU88]

The varnish is starting to wear off. People are going to start to see Zero for what he truly is: an unabashed socialist hell bent on destroying the economic and social fabric of the greatest country on earth.

[The Duke]

President Obama Outlines More than $300 Billion in new Medicare and Medicaid Savings

At first I had read that as "million", rather than "Billion", and was losing all respect for the man.

[Need4Truth]

any honest accounting must prepare for the fact that health care reform will require additional costs in the short term in order to reduce spending in the long-term.

LOL! Another "short term" increase in the size of gubmint that never gets cut.

[snowsislander]

Real reform will mean reductions in our long term budget. And I have made a firm commitment that health care reform will not add to the federal deficit over the next decade. To keep that commitment, my Administration has already identified how to pay for the historic $635 billion down payment on reform detailed in our budget. This includes over $300 billion that we will save through changes like reducing Medicare overpayments to private insurers, and rooting out waste in Medicare and Medicaid.

Translation: The Kenyan Clown plans to slash national defense, raise taxes, and vastly increase the size and influence of the nanny state.

[cranked]

“We are out of money” PING!

[Molly Pitcher]

Oh gosh...such are the times, I miss those cavemen...