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Ahead of Senate vote, Ted Cruz & Co. stand athwart bipartisan ‘doc fix’
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| April 14 at 4:20 PM
| Mike DeBonis
Posted on 04/14/2015 2:45:32 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
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posted on
04/14/2015 2:46:06 PM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
I think he just lost the “senior vote” ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/14/2015 2:49:49 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
Seniors should be covered by Medicare, not Medicaid. I’m glad Cruz and Sessions are standing up for fiscal responsibility.
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posted on
04/14/2015 2:55:25 PM PDT
by
conservativejoy
(We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
To: Star Traveler
Read it again..
Ted Cruz said that any reform changes should be structured so that it would give seniors more control of their medicare coverage.
To: conservativejoy
Sorry, rereading the entire article, it does say “Medicaid officials” but then refers to rates paid to Medicare patients. Confusing. I think both Sessions and Cruz are saying, get it paid for, not that they oppose the fix. Sessions says it is doable. Boehner screws up another one.
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:00:56 PM PDT
by
conservativejoy
(We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
To: conservativejoy
Seniors should be covered by Medicare, not Medicaid. I’m glad Cruz and Sessions are standing up for fiscal responsibility. hours before Medicaid officials say they will implement a 21 percent cut to the rates it pays doctors treating Medicare patients.
This cut affects all doctors who treat Medicare recipients, it is part of the plan to drive us to a single payer system. They are driving small practice Doctors and older providers out of business. If you liked your doctor get ready to tell him goodbye and say hello to Gungadin Pakimarish.
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:03:40 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: conservativejoy
Seniors are covered by Medicare ... that’s correct. If someone (anyone) causes the Medicare payments to doctors to drop tonight after midnight (something Congress has avoided repeatedly, year after year) ... that alone will kill a candidate’s presidential aspirations, as Medicare Seniors are a significant component of that election.
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:13:51 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: American Constitutionalist
He better be doing it before midnight then ... LOL ...
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:14:29 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Mastador1
You’ll get a Skype doctor appointment from India ... LOL ...
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:18:41 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: conservativejoy
EXISTING seniors should be covered by Medicare - by block grants given to states, who will have the power to contract with private providers.
Then all of LBJ and FDR’s babies should be phased out.
To: conservativejoy
...rates paid to Medicare patients. I don't understand the subtleties of this proposed amendment, but I know that medicare doesn't give money directly to patients.
The money goes to the physicians and other care providers. That's why most doctors support medicare. They get more business that way.
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:26:28 PM PDT
by
ARepublicanForAllReasons
(Crony Capitalism & Union boot-licking Marxist politicians are our undoing.)
To: Star Traveler
Is that when the voting on that bills ends ?
To: American Constitutionalist
That’s when the cuts to the doctor payments go into effect.
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:37:41 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: ARepublicanForAllReasons
You should see the “billings” now with payments to doctors ... they bill (for example, a cardiologist) a little over $200. I saw that come through the other day. Then Medicare tells the cardiologist that he’s only approved for somewhere around $80 or $90 of that original bill of over $200.
He has to accept that as “full payment” for Medicare payment and he cannot bill the patient anything more than what Medicare says it will pay - and “write off” the remainder of his bill. His only “other” option is to simply no longer take Medicare patients.
NOW, imagine all those doctors out there ... being told that on top of the over $200 bill, being knocked down to $80 or $90 ... tonight at midnight, that bill is knocked down another 21%.
About that time doctors are going to be tellng Medicare patients to “Get lost!” ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:46:25 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: Star Traveler
You’ll get a Skype doctor appointment from India ... LOL ... Just tell SIRI where it hurts...........Did you say angina......did you say vagina..............
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posted on
04/14/2015 3:57:55 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Mastador1
I’m gonna have to learn a bit more doctor terminology and get my self-help doctor degree to treat myself ... on the Internet ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/14/2015 4:02:59 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
To: SoConPubbie
Bipartisan. Isn’t that an obscure swahili term that means “bend over” ?
To: Star Traveler
What ever happen to repealing Obamacare and restoring the funding that way?
To: Monorprise
Throwing out Obamacare is fine ... just don’t throw out Medicare with it ... :-) ...
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posted on
04/14/2015 5:17:05 PM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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