Zero's Admin is tanking the best medical care in the world. There will be no money for research of new medical devices. There will be no money for research into new pharmaceuticals. There will be no money to actually PAY all the medical professionals, from the Doctor down to the lab assistant. Already in my field the American Cancer Society has come out in favor of pap smears only every three years. Some strains of the Human Papilloma Virus can progress from initial infection to a very serious lesion within a year. Never mind. If more of us die at a younger age there will be more health care resources for the even younger ones, right Ms Pelosi? (I'm still looking for the video of Pelosi stating that Americans over 55 use entirely too much of our health care resources!)
Look what they are going to do to our retired Military Veterans: TRI CARE FOR LIFE is our secondary health insurance to Medicare. With the cuts to Medicare, the taxes on medical products seniors use most, we are going to get slammed big time. I don't know many seniors who can take a $4-5,000 hit on their income a year. Yet they will make TO MUCH to qualify for any government program...even $1.00 over the limit and you do not qualify for even food stamps, but illegals will.
This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf