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...provision. Under current law, Medicare payments to doctors are scheduled to be cut by 21 percent in April, and then continue to decline for the rest of the decade. While this cut is typically reversed by Congress before it occurs, the oft-quoted CBO analysis of the Democratic health care legislation assumes that the cut will proceed and adds the savings to the reform’s tally. Without the “Doc Fix,” the CBO concludes that the bill adds to the deficit over the next decade. We’ll believe that Democrats will...
...funds from Medicare and Social Security. Democrats are also able to claim that the bill cuts the deficit because, while the insurance subsidies don’t start until 2014, many of the taxes kick in within months. In other words, the changes the bill makes to the health-care system itself will cost $938 billion, as estimated by the CBO, and to fund it, Democrats use taxes and accounting gimmicks. Not only could the new revenue sources have instead been used to fund better ends like healthcare vouchers or lowering the deficit, but they are also unrelated...
...overwhelming reason many Americans lack sufficient coverage is not pre-existing conditions, but rather the cost of health care, which the bill does little to correct. Moreover, even the “three-legged stool” appears unstable when you examine the details...
That’s what makes this attempt at reform so disheartening. Democrats could have, with Republican support, enacted radical changes to the U.S. healthcare system that would reduce costs for American families. Instead, they put a costly, partisan band-aid on the gaping bullet wound of skyrocketing health care costs. This is not “change” we can, or should, believe in, and we can only “hope” that Republicans win back enough seats in November to repeal...
Having staked the success of his presidency on the longstanding Democratic dream of universal health care, President Obama finally achieved victory on Sunday night, bringing an end to a yearlong partisan struggle. "This legislation will not fix everything that ails our health care system, but it moves us decisively in the right direction," Obama said shortly after the historic vote. "This is what change looks like." With Democrats chanting the signature line of the Obama presidential campaign - "Yes we can!" - the House voted 219-212 to send a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system to be signed...