Friday, September 18, 2009
Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill Calls for Cutting Back on Providing Motorized Wheelchairs through Medicare - Video
Here is a video report on calls by Missouri Democrat Sen. Claire McCaskill to cut back on providing motorized wheelchairs to people through Medicare. She was citing this as a place to save money and reduce Health Care costs.
Here is a perfect example of how the Democrats' Government Health Care would inevitably result in rationing of care. It has not even passed, and McCaskill is already talking about what the Government can get rid of in order to pay for their massive plan.
What do you think will happen once it passes?
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/09/democrat-sen-claire-mccaskill-calls-for.html
here's a quote that hasn't been cut off:
SEN. CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D-MO.): Well, I don't know how many ads you've seen for scooters on cable TV, but I see a lot of them. Those are scooters paid for by the American people,
and a lot of them are going to folks who don't need scooters.It's one example of many examples where we are paying for services or things instead of outcomes.
And I think it's very important that we start focusing on the patient and what's good for the patient rather than five or 10 or eight CAT scans in one week so docs and hospitals are trying to pay for those machines.There's lots of things we can do without cutting any of the services. And rankly, Medicare Advantage, with all due respect to Orrin, we just transferred a lot of taxpayer money to insurance companies. It hasn't brought down the cost of Medicare. It hasn't improved the services.
McCaskill was pointing out that this is one area where there is some abuse and waste. She's not talking about people with MS or who are handicapped but people who are obese and who don't really need the thing to get around but just get it because it FREE in the sense that it's paid for by you and me.
People with a true medical need will still be able to get their motorized wheel chairs.
The scare tactics from Repubs are ridiculous considering their plan is to do absolutely nothing. Shit, Repubs didn't even want to give health insurance to poor kids. They have no credible voice in this debate at all
