With the subsidies planned in the proposed healthcare bill wending its way through Congress, it appears that the reimbursements will bring total family cost down to about $1,300 a year if a couple earns some $150% of the poverty level. The same couple on Medicare has to pay more than $2,400 in Part B and D premiums.
Are they going to have cheap healthcare for the young and expensive healthcare for the old people? It sure looks that way. What perversion!
I also read that the politicians are opposed to any plan that uses the Medicare payment rates for a public plan, because doctors and hospitals would be underpaid. That logic stinks.
It's okay for your mother to be refused healthcare (25% of doctors (GPs) will not accept new Medicare patients), but your son is entitled to a different coverage, where there is no discrimination.
The only thing I see in this bill about seniors is an effort to reduce Medicare Advantage reimbursements, so that all the seniors will have to fight to get coverage, because all of them will have a substandard plan that only pays at 85% of the private plans.
Send the old people to clinics. Let them wait in line. The sooner they die, the cheaper it will be for the rest of us.
Rep. Alan Grayson isn't a nut. He hit the nail on the head.
