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Some of the health system reform plans being offered by Congress may use Medicare as a foundation, even though the system is said to be crumbling and driving more doctors to refuse patients that are covered by the program. It is now scheduled to cut Medicare physician payments by more than 20 percent on Jan. 1, 2010 and reducing it by 40 percent in five years.
The AMA says that 60% of all doctors say a Medicare cuts will force them to decrease or stop seeing new patients and to discontinue nursing home visits.
An AMA survey shows that drastic cuts in Medicare payments will make it harder for patients to see their doctor. It has been reported that already patients are using emergency rooms for conditions that could be treated in a doctor's office; that it’s gotten harder to refer patients to certain medical and surgical specialists, and that many seniors now have to travel further for needed medical care.
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Watch this and you will see where we are going. Straight from the horses mouth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
From his mouth WITHOUT a teleprompter!
Kerry, Boxer: U.S. ‘Needs’ Cap-and-Trade on Carbon Emissions Even if Energy Costs Rise
www.cnsnews.com/public/Content/Article.aspx?rsrcid=45330
“It’s a win-win in so many different ways, we can’t afford not to do it,” Kerry said.“There could be some (price) increases,” Kerry admitted, adding that the “costs of doing nothing could be greater,” including a decline in the food supply. “But there’ll be higher rises if we don’t do it and start to curb these emissions because you’re going to pay more for the adaptations, the loss of food, all the other problems that come along with it.”
Boxer also acknowledged that energy prices will rise.
“In the short run, in the transition, there’s always an up-tick (in prices)”
This bill is being touted as the Obama bill.
“The problem is can you get the American people to say this is really important and force their representatives to do the right thing, that requires mobilizing a citizenry…..
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas you name it whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations, that will cost money and they will pass that money onto the consumers.”
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