Obama Urges Senate to Prevent Medicare Payment Cuts for Doctors

Obie, you intentionally left this out of the Health Care bill so you could claim and spend a medicare cut. You find the the money on your side of the aisle.

Obama and the Democrats played the old pea and shell game. Now, with the illegal law passed, Obama has lost the pea. The shells he can move but the pea is gone. It is the Republicans who are charged with finding the pea for the game.
Let Obama and Democrats find the pea on their own. Find the pea . . or forfeit the game.

And what about Medicaid? Nobody is talking about it, do the people who have been forced onto medicaid just die or what?

Medicare cuts are part of ObamaCare signed into law by the President. The Democrats insisted on this Medicare "savings" to phony up ObamaCare to seem revenue neutral (10 years of savings to pay for 6 years of benefits). So now Obama wants to forget about these savings he signed into law, and, facing a tough election time; create a lie to blame Republicans for reduced Medicare benefits.

Yep, it's called 'the doctor fix' and WAS originally part of the Obamacare bill. It was cut from the bill so it could be passed separately, later on. This was a gimmick to bring in the pricetag of the bill artificially low, since BO had said he wouldn't sign anything over 900 billion. Of course, now the CBO has revised the cost of the bill only months after passing to well over 900 billion, saying they underestimated by 120 billion. Folks, it's politics - and the worst kind, deceptive politics. Taxes start NOW, but benefits not for 4 years. Another gimmick - 10years of taxes for 6 yrs. of benefits. The REAL cost over 10 yrs. is $2.5 trillion. I don't have the answer, but I do know we can't afford this - and if we bankrupt our country, then even vital core programs will be in jepardy. I can say that our costs keep going up, but our payments keep going down. I know a fairly busy practice that closed yesterday. The reason? Not enough paying patients and too many medicare patients. This general M.D. will be sorely missed in our area. You just can't stay in practice by breaking even. Dr. G.

This president pushed this healthcare fiasco thru knowing full well that the medicare cuts within the bill made all the numbers work as they related to "bringing down the deficit". I believe the republicans stated that this bill would raise the deficit because congress would never implement the necessary cuts to medicare and now here we are. The president wants to blast the republicans for daring to vote against the "doc fix" when he knows they were right all along to resist this healthcare cram down!

So the guy that totally ignores tort reform now wants to "throw the doc a bone"--how magnanimous and totally politically motivated. Tries to do only that which will look good on his resume' to as many groups as possible. Yawn, who else is tired of politics as usual on the Beltway?

Aw Geez. Cutting MD's pay for treating the uninsured is NOW a bad thing in an election year while nanny government forces private insurance companies out of business and takes us to UK/Canada socialized medicine? I am not an MD. but more and more people are waking up to this political fraud. I doubt this will be published because it may not be PC with this site and (in your disclaimer) not a productive addition to the conversation.

Our Country needs to do something to curb the abuse of our Medicare system, which has been incuring more and more abuse, especially in light of illegal immigrants using it to have babies, to supplement there ability to live here(illegaly), and for many many irresponsible people who feel that they should be able to have children and have everyone else pay for it. We have become a nation of "Enablers", and there are plenty of morons who are going to continue to take advantage of these systems as long as we continue to "Enable" them. We have got to start holding people accountable, and stop allowing such irresponsible behavior among those who choose to live here. We are in the most serious financial predicament we have faced in many years, and I have yet to hear someone in our government, more specifically our President call it like it is. He is instead focused on making excuses for these people instead of taking the responsible position of saying it like it is. Wake Up America! Our ship is sinking, and the problems that are contributing greatly to it are not even being brought up or discussed.

Did I read that someone said this cut is part of "Obamacare"? Did you read the article? This medicare payment cut was passed in 2003. I may be wrong here, but I don't think Obama was the President then. I think the President in 2003 was the same one who received $1,000,000 when he sold the perscription plan (Part D of Medicare) to the big pharm companies. I am so sick of people blaming the ones trying to fix things for the mess that was already made. Did you know that a lot of the increase in health cost is to pay for the people who don't have any coverage? Did you know that the #1 cause of lost man hours in small businesses is due to employees who are too sick to come to work and can't go see a Dr. because they can't afford it? Stop making a profit off of peoples illness and misery. Oh, if you want to end "big government" and taxes, try driving on unpaved roads only for the next week, or figure out how to educate your chil when there are no schools, or tell your Grandmother to pay $600 a month for medical insurance instead of the $100 she pays now for medicare.