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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 12:41 AM Original message |
Medicare begins processing doctor claims with a 21% cut in pay. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. This will be linked to the Obama health care bill. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 07:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. It already IS being hung on Obama |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:06 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Yes, many seniors in our area are blaming him. |
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SomeLogic (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-24-10 07:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
49. You can thank Pelosi, Reid & Obama For This |
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corpseratemedia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
2. many in the senate hate the disabled and elderly and want them to just die |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. Where did the law to cut it come from? When did it pass? |
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Go2Peace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 01:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I see, it is due to the formula. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 01:08 AM Response to Original message |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
6. Senate Delays Medicare Reimbursement Cut Until December |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:36 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. That was Friday. This is from the 21st. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 03:55 PM Response to Reply #14 |
23. Though the blog was published on the 21st, it refers to Thursday's cloture vote. On Friday |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 04:41 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. It took 5 articles for me to get this clarified enough. That's wrong. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 06:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
33. Yeah, it's a process - The House has to vote, of course, and the President needs to sign. |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 07:10 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Pelosi will not hold a vote on the Senate doc fix bill. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 07:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. I am not politically "savvy" when it comes to manipulating seniors. |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 09:32 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. I'm 57, disabled and on Medicare. See my post #34. |
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Paper Roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-24-10 11:40 AM Response to Reply #33 |
46. My daughter is a primary care physician. She has recently moved |
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shireen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 02:50 AM Response to Original message |
7. this is scary ... |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 03:35 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I think Rep Bunning (R-Kentucky) was the main hold up |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:07 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Lieberman did. Don't know the others. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. They are playing games with seniors' health care. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 02:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. They are playing games with EVERYBODY'S health care, because many |
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newblewtoo (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 06:35 AM Response to Original message |
9. I recently had |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:33 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Seems mostly just big clinics will take seniors. |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
16. "Congress has finally taken its game of brinkmanship too far" |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
17. Did they or didn't they? Or do they even know? |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. How's bout both houses of Congress cut THEIR pay, and all of their staff, by 21%? |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
19. More. Unbelievably complicated. Manipulating seniors. |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
21. this ain't good |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. Thanks. CAN WE FIX THE CRAPSURANCE HCR BILL NOW? Medicare For All. nt |
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wysingm (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
24. Senate passed a six-month “doc fix” bill |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 04:39 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Looks like cuts will be in effect though for a while...then we start all over again.. |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 06:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. But the House is holding it back trying to get unemployment benefits extended last I heard. |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
27. we keep doing everything backwards |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 05:51 PM Response to Original message |
28. It's about getting rid of Medicare entirely, through the death of 1000 cuts |
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sulphurdunn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 06:18 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Precisely |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 06:50 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. The election of Reagan was a watershed |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 05:52 PM Response to Original message |
29. Prediction: those on Medicare will be shuffled to public clinics, which receive public |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 06:43 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. I'm on Medicare. I receive primary care at a public health clinic. I've also been able to see |
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Hell Hath No Fury (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 05:57 PM Response to Original message |
30. They fuck with Medicare --- |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 07:05 PM Response to Original message |
36. Pelosi needs to hold a vote on the Senate doc fix language right now. |
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SwampG8r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 07:17 PM Response to Original message |
38. drs get a 79% payoff? |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 08:49 PM Response to Original message |
40. THe last time I checked there were only two doctors in my entire community who were |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
41. The only way to find out if those 31% are telling the truth is to make the cuts and see |
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madfloridian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 09:39 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. We could make the cuts and take whatever the consequences might be. |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-22-10 10:13 PM Response to Reply #41 |
44. That, or Democrats go down in history as the party that killed Medicare. |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-23-10 08:43 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. This 21% cut is really deep. I think it will be fixed shortly, but Congress |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-24-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Pelosi's blocking it |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-24-10 12:09 PM Response to Reply #41 |
48. Nope |
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