Jon Gansen said: [quote">Their job is to oversee the business practices from year-to-year.
Money and how it is spent what procedures, practices, drugs. I did read it (as much as I could stand) They can restrict care thru money.
Obamacare creates a board of unelected bureaucrats to implement ways to keep Medicare spending below a new cap. The board is limited mostly to changing provider payment rates, but reducing reimbursement will make it more difficult for providers to continue to care for Medicare patients. IPAB will also be empowered to contain costs by restricting access to certain treatments or services. Though the statute authorizes IPAB to "protect and improve Medicare beneficiaries' access to necessary and evidence-based items and services," this directive can be used to justify restricting access to care that the government does not consider necessary or evidence-based for most patients. Policy analyst from the Heritage Foundation.
1. How does this sound different then what insurance companies already do?
2. Sounds like something the Republicans would be all in favor of, resticting entitlements? You all talk about medicare going bankrupt, this is an attempt to save it. How would the voucher system be better? Hoping the insurance I buy with my voucher would do things any better? Explain to me how it will be better and then I would be willing to buy it.
Mel