MADE IN WASHINGTON: Washington Democrat Plan Guts Medicare, Raises Taxes & “Rations” Care

April 20, 2011

Washington Democrat Plan Guts Medicare, Raises Taxes & “Rations” Care
Democrat Plan Takes Healthcare Choices out of Seniors’ Hands and Hands over to Bureaucrats in DC

DC DEMOCRATS STILL DON’T GET IT: Democrats are pushing their big-government agenda further, stripping the ability to make Medicare choices out of doctors’ and seniors’ hands and instead giving the task of cutting and gutting Medicare over to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats:

“Mr. Obama, by contrast, is relying on the so far unidentified technocratic reforms of 15 so far unidentified geniuses who are supposed to give up medical practice or academic research for the privilege of a government salary.” (Editorial, “The Other Medicare Cutters,” The Wall Street Journal, 4/20/11)

MADE IN WASHINGTON, DC: The Democrats’ plan not only hands over healthcare decisions to bureaucrats in DC, but even worse, slashes Medicare, raises taxes, and could lead to seniors losing their current doctor:

“The Independent Payment Advisory Board was created in the ObamaCare statute, and the President will appoint its experts in 2012 to six-year terms. From then on, look out. Democrats cut $468 billion in Medicare spending by screwing down its price controls and gutting the private insurance options of Medicare Advantage, while also boosting taxes by about $89 billion.”

“As a practical matter, the more likely outcome is the political rationing of care for the elderly, as now occurs in Britain, or else the board will drive prices so low that many doctors and hospitals drop out of Medicare. Either alternative would create the kind of two-tier system dividing the poor and affluent that Democrats claim is Mr. Ryan’s mortal sin.” (Editorial, “The Other Medicare Cutters,” The Wall Street Journal, 4/20/11)

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