GOP Plan.You Will Have Medicare But No Doctor/Hospital Will See You. Worthless Like Confederate $.

[TheMastersNemesis]

Based on what was on Hartmann right now the automatic cuts in Medicare will be cuts in reimbursement to doctors, hospitals and in the end most likely drugs. So if the cuts continue as scheduled you might have Medicare coverage but no one will see you or take you.

In the past there were situations where doctors would not see Medicaid patients and in the future we will find that maybe even hospitals will not treat your serious medical condition unless you pay up front because you are on Medicare. You might have to buy private insurance to cover any gap.

The GOP is setting up and after the fact scenario where the cuts won't be obvious until you are really sick and NO ONE will treat you. The are making Medicare and even Medicaid a "Confederate dollar". Worthless.

[PdxSean]

1. The analogy is spot on!

Medicare and Medicaid as worthless as confederate money.

Indeed, the confederacy has risen anew via the Republican Party (with an assist from Putin).

[CountAllVotes]

2. FYI

It is already that way, I know!

The doctor I was going to told me so!

Didn't want my business as not making enough $$$ off of me so it turned into receiving a call from idiot doctor cussing at me. That's right, let it all out! Don't hold back now!

So much for the hypocritical oath!

[leftofcool]

3. It is already that way.

What planet has Hartmann been living on?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. I hope you do not mind.....

that I borrowed your post, with some edits, and posted it on my Facebook timeline.

I was listening to the same show and Thom Hartmann is right on so many levels on so many things.

[TheMastersNemesis]

6. Certainly OK. I Am Not On Facebook. BTW.

I believe there were problems in the past with finding a doctor who took Medicare. Even now there is a problem with doctors taking Medicaid. Reducing the rates to providers is a way of killing these programs from the back door. The GOP can say that there still is Medicare or Medicaid but there won't be any providers who can give a service if they lose money in the process. Under funding has always been their trick. Plus they are good at creating storefront programs with requirements so stringent few or no one can qualify.

[titaniumsalute]

5. The problem is...

Then there won't be doctors, nurses, or hospitals. They will all go out of business. There won't be enough 1%ers to pay for hospitals.

[onethatcares]

7. single payer

would seem to be the only way to go.

All we have to do is stop going to war and feeding the beast.