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President Obama Medicare slush fund- NYPOST
Isn't this a nice thing to do before you run for election?
I wondered why my mom was getting calls from Humana trying to switch her into a Medicaid plan. She doesn't have the resources to do well with just Medicare and her health issues. I guess we won't understand, until we're all too old to fend for ourselves.
Call it President Obama’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department.
The most oppressive aspects of the ObamaCare law don’t kick in until after the 2012 election, when the president will no longer be answerable to voters.
But certain voters would surely notice one highly painful part of the law before then — namely, the way it guts the popular Medicare Advantage program.
For years, 12 million seniors have relied on these policies, a more market-oriented alternative to traditional Medicare, without the aggravating gaps in coverage.
But as part of its hundreds of billions in Medicare cuts, the Obama one-size-fits-all plan slashes reimbursement rates for Medicare Advantage starting next year — herding many seniors back into the government-run program.
Under federal “open-enrollment” guidelines, seniors must pick their Medicare coverage program for next year by the end of this year — which means they should be finding out before Election Day.
Isn't this a nice thing to do before you run for election?
I wondered why my mom was getting calls from Humana trying to switch her into a Medicaid plan. She doesn't have the resources to do well with just Medicare and her health issues. I guess we won't understand, until we're all too old to fend for ourselves.