Obama’s New Medicare Plan: Cut Medicare Services To Fuel His Reckless Spending

The latest Medicare plan announced by the Obama administration will greatly restrict medical care for senior citizens through broad and indiscriminate cuts to the Medicare Advantage program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an agency within the Health and Human Services Department, announced the changes to Medicare as part of the implementation of Obamacare. In order to keep healthcare costs at current rates, the administration finally acknowledges it must cut services – a point House Republicans raised from the beginning.

But, House Republicans aren’t the only ones raising concerns about the new plan. The co-chairs of the bi-partisan Partnership for the Future of Medicare, former director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office Doug Holtz-Eakin and economist and former health policy and administration professor Dr. Ken Thorpe, said the following:

“These [Medicare Advantage program] across the board cuts are short-sighted with little consideration of their impact on the quality of care currently delivered to beneficiaries. Such an action is disruptive to the system, driving more beneficiaries to the unreformed fee-for-service model that will in no way help improve the health of beneficiaries or the long-term sustainability of Medicare.” (Partnership for the Future of Medicare, PFM co-chairs’ statement on CMS’s proposed Medicare Advantage payment changes)