Oh lookie, more provisions to ration health care (from an email):
Pages 284-288, SEC. 1151. REDUCING POTENTIALLY PREVENTABLE HOSPITAL READMISSIONS:
‘(ii) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN READMISSIONS.—For purposes of clause (i), with respect to a hospital, excess readmissions shall not include readmissions for an applicable condition for which there are fewer than a minimum number (as determined by the Secretary) of discharges for such applicable condition for the applicable period and such hospital.
and, under “Definitions”:
‘‘(A) APPLICABLE CONDITION.—The term ‘applicable condition’ means, subject to subparagraph (B), a condition or procedure selected by the Secretary . . .
and:
‘‘(E) READMISSION.—The term ‘readmission’ means, in the case of an individual who is discharged from an applicable hospital, the admission of the individual to the same or another applicable hospital within a time period specified by the Secretary from the date of such discharge.
and:
‘‘(6) LIMITATIONS ON REVIEW.—There shall be no administrative or judicial review under section 1869, section 1878, or otherwise of— . . .
McCain to Obama. "If you don't like our bill, send troops to help us."
Obama, himself attempted to filibuster Justice Alito, who now sits on the Supreme Court.
Medicare Advantage Plans
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Medicare Advantage Plans are health plan options that are part of the Medicare program. If you join one of these plans, you generally get all your Medicare-covered health care through that plan. This coverage can include prescription drug coverage. Medicare Advantage Plans include:
* Medicare Health Maintenance Organization (HMOs)
* Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO)
* Private Fee-for-Service Plans
* Medicare Special Needs Plans
When you join a Medicare Advantage Plan, you use the health insurance card that you get from the plan for your health care. In most of these plans, generally there are extra benefits and lower copayments than in the Original Medicare Plan. However, you may have to see doctors that belong to the plan or go to certain hospitals to get services.
To join a Medicare Advantage Plan, you must have Medicare Part A and Part B. You will have to pay your monthly Medicare Part B premium to Medicare. In addition, you might have to pay a monthly premium to your Medicare Advantage Plan for the extra benefits that they offer.
If you join a Medicare Advantage Plan, your Medigap policy won’t work. This means it won’t pay any deductibles, copayments, or other cost-sharing under your Medicare Health Plan. Therefore, you may want to drop your Medigap policy if you join a Medicare Advantage Plan. However, you have a legal right to keep the Medigap policy.
To compare Medicare Advantage Plans, go to the Medicare Options Compare.
http://www.medicare.gov/choices/advantage.asp
So reducing subsidies to private insurance companies?
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
Proving tax cuts work!
Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
Yeah. Bush instated it in 2003 and gave trillions to the healthcare industry to take seniors off the rolls of Medicare and put them on private insurance plans that give them similar care as Medicare but cost about 12 percent more, and they're not bound by the same rules. It's privatization of medicare, and you're paying for it. The government pays these people to charge seniors for care, and pays them huge amounts of money to do it. By the way, where were the cost hawks in 2003?
By the way, they bilked us of lots of money and in 2007 were investigated (once the Democrats were in and had the power to do so) and were found to have cheated the taxpayers out of billions. Private industry!
Anyway, Obama's suggesting we repeal Bush's medicare advantage disaster and save money but putting them back on normal medicare so we're not paying private industry to fuck up their coverage for no reason.
Lying Republicans (a redundancy) falsely claim that health insurance reform would increase the huge deficit that Bush ran up, when in fact the President has repeatedly said that reform must be deficit-neutral.
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