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To: LindyBill who wrote (484331)	4/24/2012 8:47:04 PM
From: DMaA	8 Recommendations Respond to of 793776

Instead of Obama's plan of tricking kids into taking on crushing debt in order to shovel another bolus of cash to his ideological pals in Big Education, we should go the medicare route. Just by law force colleges to cut their tuition in half, like we force medical providers to do..

To: LindyBill who wrote (484331)	4/24/2012 10:09:54 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793776

>>> For one thing, current law would require a physician fee reduction of an estimated 30.9 percent on January 1, 2013. But this is, in Foster’s words, “an implausible expectation.” <<<< They pass an idiotic law and than keep suspending its implementation, year after year. Primary care docs get roughly 5% of the healthcare dollars. About half is spent on the overhead - employees, rents, etc. Cut them by 30%, and it will have to come out right out of their income - which will get chopped more than in half. Good luck with that. Will never happen. Besides, this would comprise a huge ~1.6% savings in the total healthcare costs. You can cut 10 times more by retiring some healthcare bureaucrats, and no one will notice any difference.

To: LindyBill who wrote (484331)	4/25/2012 1:57:11 PM
From: Neeka	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793776

One of the big consequences of this "problem" is that it stifles mobility. We're thinking of moving to a different state, but that will all depend on whether we can find a Medicare provider. (neither one of us is currently on Medicare, but he will be soon...........I'm still several yrs out.) Our current physicians, who we've been with for over 20 yrs, are not taking any new Medicare patients, (we're grandfathered in) and I'd bet that is the route most doctors are taking. So what does a person do about hc if they reach medicare age and can't find a doctor? Consequently, "the prices paid by Medicare for health services are very likely to fall increasingly short of the costs of providing these services." Indeed, "Medicare prices would be considerably below the current relative level of Medicaid prices, which have already led to access problems."