Your only two choices on Medicare, protect Medicare with Romney/Ryan, or raid Medicare with obama/biden

Actually obama did raid Medicare by 716 Billion dollars, that is a fact you now have to live with. So our little obama supporter and useful idiot for the democrats, tell us why you hate seniors?? The cuts that obama HAS done are not the same as those proposed by the insurance companies , and these cuts are not for fraud and waste. All you are doing is repeating leftist lies

Obama Loots $716 Billion from Medicare
A Report issued by the CBO this week finds Obama has taken $716 Billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare

Senior Obama adviser David Axelrod attacked Romney and Ryan this week with the accusation that a repeal of Obamacare would bankrupt Medicare. David Axelrod however is misinformed, as the real threat to Medicare is President Obama, who has taken billions of dollars from Medicare to fund Obamacare.

According to the CBO, the payment cuts in Medicare include:

A $260 billion payment cut for hospital services.
A $39 billion payment cut for skilled nursing services.
A $17 billion payment cut for hospice services.
A $66 billion payment cut for home health services.
A $33 billion payment cut for all other services.
A $156 billion cut in payment rates in Medicare Advantage (MA); $156 billion is before considering interactions with other provisions. The House Ways and Means Committee was able to include interactions with other provisions, estimating the cuts to MA to be even higher, coming in at $308 billion.
$56 billion in cuts for disproportionate share hospital (DSH) payments.* DSH payments go to hospitals that serve a large number of low-income patients.
$114 billion in other provisions pertaining to Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP* (does not include coverage-related provisions).

*Subtract $25 billion total between DSH payments and other provisions for spending that was cut from Medicaid and CHIP.

In total, Obamacare raids Medicare by $716 billion from 2013 to 2022. Despite Medicare facing a 75-year unfunded obligation of $37 trillion, Obamacare uses the savings from the cuts to pay for other provisions in Obamacare, not to help shore up Medicare’s finances.

The impact of these cuts will be detrimental to seniors’ access to care. The Medicare trustees 2012 report concludes that these lower Medicare payment rates will cause an estimated 15 percent of hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health agencies to operate at a loss by 2019, 25 percent to operate at a loss in 2030, and 40 percent by 2050. Operating at a loss means these facilities are likely to cut back their services to Medicare patients or close their doors, making it more difficult for seniors to access these services.

In addition, as MA deteriorates under Obamacare’s cuts, many of those who are enrolled in MA (27 percent of total Medicare beneficiaries) will lose their current health coverage and be forced back into traditional Medicare, where Medicare providers will be subject to further cuts. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief actuary predicted in 2010 that enrollment in MA would decrease 50 percent by 2017, when Obamacare’s cuts were estimated at only $145 billion. Now that the cuts have been increased to $156 billion (or possibly $308 billion, as the Ways and Means Committee estimates), MA enrollment will surely decrease even further.

But Obamacare’s raid of Medicare doesn’t stop with cuts; it includes a redirection of tax revenue from the Medicare payroll tax hike in Obamacare. The payroll tax funds Medicare Part A, the trust fund that is projected to become insolvent as soon as 2024. Obamacare increases the tax from 2.9 percent to 3.8 percent, which is projected to cost taxpayers $318 billion from 2013 to 2022. However, for the very first time, Obamacare does not use the tax revenue from the increased Medicare payroll tax to pay for Medicare; the money is used to fund other parts of Obamacare, much like the $716 billion in cuts are.

With a raid on Medicare of this magnitude, President Obama’s assertion that his new law is protecting seniors and Medicare is astonishing. The truth is that Obamacare does the opposite.

astac, I swear... perhaps, you cannot understand. Poltics really have no place in the lives of people who have their worlds shattered when they lose all they've worked and gonna have. I'm on a mission to help people because that is what I and the other members of our team do....

When I sell a policy to a person - that is not the end of things. That is just the beginning. These clients are people you get to know for years and years.

Those relationships don't get started on lies. You help them maximize their assets and lives, you watch their kids grow and watch their parents die. It's not for the faint hearted... it's alot of work. When you screw up with lies you find out the damage you do in a d*mn hurry.

It takes a passion that you may not be able to understand or muster. If not me, become friends with a good insurance agent. Ask yourself, why would a college educated and company trained expert put himself in the roll of a telemarketer... Is it because we see the hurt and disaster people experience everyday...? Yeah, it is.... We also see the sighs of relief and joy when we help people meet a future they may not have had if they had not met you....

I recently uncovered $20,000 dollars a dying old woman didn't know she had and all she wants before she dies is a new couch... You know how much I got paid for that..? Nothing... Zilch.... It was money she already had but was hidden in a big stack of personal files... She won't be here by this time next year but I left her better off than when I found her.... All because she answered the phone when I checked on her medicare and allowed me to review her files.