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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
It was the liberals who made a commercial out of the idea that Ryan was pushing old ladies off a cliff. Is Ryan suggesting that? WHat I heard Ryan say, is that Obama took $700 billion from Medicare. I her Obama say "yeah, but we're paying for that by reducing reimbursements to doctors". If that's truem it still hurts grandma. Because lower reimbursements will mean more docs will refuse to accept Medicare patients. That hurts current seniors.
Try makiing that wrong...
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He said it was at the expense of the elderly...same thing as pushing them off a cliff.
Most of the spending cuts are to hospitals and insurance not individual doctors. Part of the deal cut with the HCB was for the government to pay less in exchange for more people in the system. These would actually improve care to seniors as they would have more access to services for the same money.
-spence