Actually Senator, ObamaCare Does Cut Medicare
According to Senator Russ Feingold in an interview to the Hudson Star-Observer there were no cuts in Medicare and to say otherwise is a lie.
“Feingold called Republican assertions that the health care act cut Medicare “an absolute fraud.”
“It did not cut Medicare benefits,” he said.
Actually, Senator, it did.
By about $500 Billion according to this January 2010 letter from the Congressional Budget Office. ObamaCare also cut $200 billion from Medicare Advantage, according to this article in the Wall Street Journal. 100,000 Wisconsinites will lose Medicare Advantage coverage because of the bill.
Shortly after his election I had breakfast with Senator Feingold and he told me of all his grandiose plans to save money in Washington. I have yet to see any positive results either in the press or on my 1040.
I will have to read about Medicare advantage. I don’t know enough to agree or refute your statements. But let me give you my experience with health care in the US.
As a small business owner we dropped our $750/month catastrophic family policy because we could not afford that policy and pay our bills. The policy had a $2,500 deductible. That meant that we payed about $9,000 per year on premium payments and if anything happened to a family member the first $2,500 came out of our pockets. We paid $11,500 before we got a nickel of insurance coverage. Basically we paid $9K per year for NOTHING.
A few months after we dropped our policy I got blood clots in my lungs and almost died. We now have $4K in medical bills because of my hospital stay.
If Mr. Johnson wants to speak honestly about health care reform he needs to stop talking about bureaucrats rationing health care. He needs to stop telling the same lies as the rest of the Republicans did during the so called “debate” on that legislation. It sickened me to hear the Republicans lie repeatedly. There is no bureaucrats rationing care. What’s next is he going to pull out Palin’s line about “death panels?”
Give the citizens of WI the respect they deserve and stop the phony hyperbole. It is wrong and as far as I can tell that kind of language is not even close to “restoring WI values.”
Deal honestly with us and I will respect you. Reading your statements on the health care issue makes me lose respect for you.
The above statement has a typo. I have $14K in medical bills.
My point with the above statement is that it seems that Mr. Johnson wants to restore the insurance environment that gouged me and my family and kept food off our table.
Mr. Johnson — Health care for all United States citizens is a priority. I ask you, why is the richest country in the word ranked lower than any other industrialized nation when it comes to the health status of its citizens? The U.S. currently spends more on health care than any other first world nation, even though it does not provide benefits for all. The reason? Insurance companies spend millions of dollars fighting claims, and providers are able to charge whatever they please. In the meantime, U.S. citizens have the same life expectancy of citizens of Cuba — and the highest infant death mortality rate of any other industrialized nation. You are wrong, Mr. Johnson, when you state that we have the best health care system in the world……no other country emulates what we have and their citizens would not choose what we have — we have a system in which health care is rationed to those who have the ability to pay. Mr. Johnson, your ideas on health care would put us back in the dark ages. It is time to move ahead, not backward.