Lawmakers Reverse Medicare Oxygen Ruling (tried to limit paying for it)

http://www.kotv.com/main/home/storiesNL.asp?whichpage=1&id=95751

In last-minute, pre-dawn wrangling, members of Congress reversed a change in Medicare coverage for oxygen tank users that would have ended payments for the equipment after 18 months.

Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, normally an immovable budget hawk, threatened to derail a $40 billion deficit-cutting budget bill in the Senate if the House slashed federal payments to oxygen and oxygen-tank suppliers.

Currently, Medicare pays for oxygen supply, tanks and maintenance for as long as an eligible patient uses them; the average usage period is 30 months. Early Monday, a joint House-Senate committee crafted a compromise that would have cut off Medicare coverage for oxygen tanks after 18 months.

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The oxygen tank provision was tacked onto compromise legislation that would have transferred ownership of durable medical equipment, like hospital beds and wheelchairs, to Medicare Part B beneficiaries after 13 months.

are finally meeting opposition and the Republicans are getting the message. Most Americans are against the most elite paying less in taxes to be paid for by cuts to the needy and middle class. They are just now waking up to what is happening.

donated $100,000 to chimpass's first inaugural "celebration"..guess the repukes involved realized that a major donor was going to lose money over this law...forget all the eldery and those w/ chronic respiratory problems who would have gotten screwed, all that matters is the donor.


PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
Inauguration 2001
http://www.opensecrets.org/2000elect/other/bush/inaugural.asp

Invacare Corp Elyria OH Invacare Corp $100,000

Also the guy who owns it is a chimp "Ranger"..i.e huge $$$$ donor.

http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/12-19_RandP.pdf

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And why the hell are the Dems not picking these cutbacks apart with a fine tooth comb and throwing them out to the MSM? Seems that messing with people's oxygen would get AARP, etc.. pissed off enough to cause chimp some more public grief.

Maybe they'll find their voice.

And guess what happens after that 30 months.

And if BushCo gets its way? Ans> Shorter life PERIOD.

the beginning of the Empire. They do not want the poor and elderly to live. Or the children who are suffering.

Maybe if we authorized oxygen for those hypoxic souls who propose such cuts we could turn this madness around.