Conn Carroll:
“We have a plan. It’s called Medicare,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told The Washington Post last week. “We gave the blueprint for how we strengthen Medicare in the Affordable Care Act,” Pelosi told the Post from Wisconsin, where she was on a tour demagoguing against House Budget Committee Chairman’s Paul Ryan budget.
Democrats claim Ryan’s budget “ends Medicare as we know it.” Problem is, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) detailed in a report released Friday, under the Democrats plan, Medicare “as we know it” won’t be around for much longer.
Democrats are claiming that Ryan’s plan will force seniors to pay $6,400 a year more for health care than current law. But as the CMS reported Friday, the only way Medicare manages to achieve those savings is by paying doctor’s less. A lot less. In 2009, Medicare paid doctors about 80% if what private health insurance paid. Under the Democrats plan that number would decline to 57% by 2012. By 2085, Medicare would only be paying 27% of what private insurance pays. Would this effect the quality of care Medicare recipients receive? Absolutely CMS reports....
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There is a third alternative and that is a control freak board acting as a death panel which seems to be high on the Democrat agenda. None of the Democrat alternatives are as humane as the Ryan plan.
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