So why is Obama taking $751 billion out of Medicare to fund Obamacare ($5 trillion over 20 years)?
cut and paste from elsewhere:
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found last month that the Medicare provisions in the health care law would save $700 billion over a decade and extend the life of Medicare.
The cuts don’t target beneficiaries — they come largely in the form of reduced payments to hospitals, discounts on Medicaid prescription drugs, and pay cuts to private insurers under Medicare Advantage. The hospital and drug industries endorsed the law despite the cuts.
The Ryan plan, by contrast, would transform Medicare into a structure that rolls back the coverage guarantee for the elderly. In 10 years, the program would be replaced with a subsidy that beneficiaries can use to purchase insurance from a menu of private plans and a government option. CBO projects that in some cases, the subsidy won’t be sufficient to cover seniors’ medical expenses.
Why should a free health care entitlement be paid for by the working class?
you have always been paying for those without insurance, via inflated hospital bills and larger insurance premiums. This is very inefficient. Now we are going to try something different (at least for the US).
Why is Obamacare being forced onto U.S. citizens as a mandatory tax?
it was a republican plan. we progressives were holding out for single payer.
