Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
White House dumps ‘secret shopper’ survey of doctors
I reported on this a couple of days ago. The plan was to send "fake" patients to various doctors in an effort to document which were accepting patients covered by private insurance while rejecting others on government insurance (its legal, you know).
Anyone know who Congressman Paul Ryan is? Well, he is the guy Obama excoriated in the presence of God and the country proclaiming, "Ryan's plan would cut Medicare and send the poor and seniors off without insurance coverage." Not true, but who cares about truth. What was ignored by those who listened to Obama's fantasies was the fact that his plan cut half a trillion from Medicare . . . . . that's 500 billion dollars. How does that happen without cutting services and/or reducing pay-outs to doctors? Hint: it doesn't.
So Obama's plan, one that is currently law, makes draconian cuts to Medicare and no one seems to care while the Ryan "plan" is only in the talking stage and reportedly saves Medicare. My point is this: who really cares if the Ryan plan cuts into Medicare, it is not law; it is only the basis for a congressional discussion that must happen. Obama's plan is real, the Medicare cuts are part of the law, and there was no discussion . . . . . . just a couple of closed doors behind which sat Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Max what's his name from Montana, and few other select libs, plotting paybacks to their union buds while ignoring the need to balance the books as relates to ObamaCare. Make note that I did not include Obama's name in the above rant. Why? Because he played no role in writing the bill. It is not his bill and that is why he does not know what is in the thing.
Anyway, Obama's epiphany came in the form a request for waiver. Since the first request, he has handed out nearly 1,400 waivers, most of which went to democrat entities. The epiphany? Oh, that had to do with the fact that the bill was a far greater financial burden on "the people" than Obama had been told . . . . . something most of the conservative community already knew.
And the doctors taking Medicare patients? Well, they were receiving only 70% of what they requested, from Medicare, before the $500 billion cut to the program. Now that the bill is law, the additional cuts will render Medicare a negative financial assignment and many in the medical community are telling the government to drop dead.
They have the right to refuse service to Medicare patients. I officially live near Fresno, California. In that community, we have doctors who have had to wait for more than a year to receive payment from the Feds, and, then, the payments were only a fraction of what they needed to pay their bills. One of the greatest illusions fostered on the American public by the Class Warfare crowd is the notion that doctors are rich folks. My "general practice" doctors makes a little over $100,000 before the government(s) take half his pay in the form of taxes. You do the math. And how do I know this? He told me. My son is an ER doctor. He makes over $220,000 a year and pays nearly $40,000 in taxes, each quarter of the year. Is there anyone out there who actually knows how to add and subtract? If so, here is y0ur morning's assignment: take $220,000 and subtract $160,000. He gets a chunk of this back, to be sure, but, in the end, he lives in a $400,000 house(nothing exceptional -- but a nice home, nonetheless), owns a used Honda Pilot and three of those plastic bikes that go 4,000 miles per hour. Meanwhile, Barack Obama has earned more than $7 million since becoming president, Nancy Pelosi saw her multimillion dollar worth increase by 63% last year and Harry Reid became a millionaire since becoming a Senator, many years ago.
Question: so, who are the rich in this country, really, and why are they not paying their "fair share." Just askin'.
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