The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in an attempt to market ObamaCare to seniors post-passage, has put together a 4-page color brochure touting its supposed benefits. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the pamphlet – which was mailed to Medicare recipients – is “nothing short of government propaganda paid for by the taxpayer.”
“We’re going to do everything we can to make sure this law never, ever goes into effect,” says House Minority Leader John Boehner — as the Republicans also plan to challenge the confirmation of Donald Berwick as the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
In the wake of ObamaCare’s failure to provide a Medicare “doc fix” and its plans to siphon nearly $1 trillion dollars out of Medicare in the overhaul’s real first decade (2014 to 2023), 42 percent of Texas doctors are now refusing to take new Medicare patients and hundreds are opting out of Medicare altogether.
An MIT economist says that past increases in government-provided insurance have raised health costs far more than expected.
Establish the Federal Coordinated Health Care Office to coordinate treatments and payments for “dual eligibles” who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
Provides a one-time payment of $250 to seniors who have prescription drug costs high enough to put them into the Medicare Part D “donut hole.”
Expand Medicare coverage to individuals who have been exposed to environmental health hazards from living in an area subject to an emergency declaration made as of June 17, 2009 and have developed certain health conditions as a result.
Initiate $157 billion in cuts over 10 years to Medicare and Medicaid payments for inpatient hospital, home health, skilled nursing facility, hospice and other Medicare providers, and adjust for productivity.
Ban new physician-owned hospitals in Medicare, requiring hospitals to have a provider agreement in effect by December 31; limit the growth of certain grandfathered physician-owned hospitals.