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9/26/10, "New projections from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid paint a stark picture of the impact of the ObamaCare law:
- We're in for a massive redistribution of health resources.
- In 2014, a staggering 85.2 million people -- 31 percent of all nonelderly Americans -- will be on Medicaid and CHIP (the Medicaid-like children's health program).
- Often, workers put up with low salaries to get good health benefits for their families. But the new law stipulates that Medicaid recipients get the same benefits that employers are required to provide workers.
- an overall move to make more people dependent on government.
- One in six Americans depends on them.
- Two fundamental American sentiments get trampled in the process:our culture of hard work and self-sufficiency and our commitment to stand by the generation that nurtured us.
It's like robbing Peter to pay Paul, only it's robbing grandma and grandpa. The new projections show that in 2019, for example, ObamaCare cuts Medicare funding by $86.4 billion -- which works out to $1,428 less for each elderly patient that year. Baby boomers will face difficulties accessing care that seniors now get. Richard Foster, chief actuary for Medicare, has spoken with brave bluntness about the possible impact, warning that some hospitals might stop taking Medicare. Where will seniors go?
- Figures don't lie. The projections from the Obama administration's own agency,the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, depict the truth in stark terms. Higher premiums are bad enough, but to see the older generation victimized
9/26/10, "Obamacare's redistribution of health," by Betsey McCaughey, NY Post, Commentary
- Betsy McCaughey is a former New York lieutenant governor and author of "The Obama Health Law: What It Says and How to Overturn It." betsy@defendyourhealthcare.us
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