Waxman Drops The Bomb, We Cant Afford Obama’s Healthcare [Reader Post]

Charismatic Charmer, Henry Waxman & Obama,  “America’s Turd In The Punchbowl”, is getting steamed

On Friday, Congressman Henry Waxman D CA, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Finance, was on the floor pleading with Democrat Congressional members they need to push for an immediate 22.9 Billion Dollar ‘Fix’ for Medicare to cover doctor’s fees.

The Bill that was supposed to lower the cost of Health Care has now shown itself to have costs that are spiraling out of control: Barack assured the nation upon signing the Health Care Bill,

“This legislation will lower costs for families and for businesses and for the federal government, reducing our deficit by over $1 trillion in the next two decades,”.

In just two months, Waxman has discovered this new need for a 102 billion in federal spending that would increase the national debt by 54 billion over the next ten years, 25 billion going out to cover costs for the next few months of the fiscal year.

According to Waxman:

“It’s absolutely critical to do this if we are going to keep doctors in Medicare and keep the promise to Medicare beneficiaries that they will have access to physicians’ services,  This provision will provide a moderate increase in physicians’ fees, 2.2 percent for the rest of the year. If we don’t act, doctors’ fees will be cut by 21 percent from where they are today. This would be unconscionable.”

In his ‘sudden’ desire for truth and solvency, Waxman pleaded with colleagues:

to vote for a bill that includes $102 billion in new federal spending and would add $54 billion to the national debt over the next 10 years — $25 billion of it in the few months remaining in this fiscal year.

According to President Obama, July 20, 2009, in Washington, DC, after a health care round-table with physicians, nurses, and health care providers.

“The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”

In Portsmouth, NH, our erudite President and former guest lecturer/community organizer, gave us insight into his business acumen while he tried to explain the advantages of government-run health care.

“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.”

On Wednesday, Nancy Pelosi, received a letter from a coalition of physicians representing 12 national surgeons’ associations—including the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery with the following warning.

“These continued payment cuts, rising practice costs and a lack of certainty going forward, make it difficult, if not impossible, for already financially challenged surgical practices to continue to treat Medicare patients,”

The letter pointed the speaker toward the results of a survey of more than 13,000 physicians done in February by the Surgical Coalition, a group of more than 20 medical associations. The survey asked these doctors what they would do if Medicare fees were slashed by the scheduled 21.2 percent.

Twenty-nine percent said they would opt out of the Medicare system entirely. Almost 69 percent said they would limit the number of appointments they would take from Medicare patients, 45.8 percent said they would start referring complex Medicare patients to other physicians, 45.3 percent said they would stop providing certain services, 43.8 percent said they would defer purchasing new medical equipment and 42.7 percent said they would cut their staff. Almost 4 percent of the doctors said they would close or sell their practices.

Why did congress enact the health-care bill under the assumption that they would slash doctors’ fees? It is an ongoing scam, congress assumes the cut to doctors’ fees will be prevented at some point in the future with an emergency fix; therefore, the long term deficits resulting from their spending appears to be smaller.

As originally proposed, Obamacare would have ended this practice, permanently setting Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors at the true anticipated level. But the Congressional Budget Office determined that doing so would have added $208 billion to the cost of Obamacare over 10 years, forcing the CBO to declare that Obamacare added to the deficit rather than reduced it. That would have cost Obamacare votes on the House floor and quite possibly defeated the legislation.

Thus through Congressional misrepresentation or possibly fraud, Obama’s Health Care or the nationalization of one sixth of our economy was more assured of passage.

In typical bungling fashion, Waxman, a main architect of the Health care Bill found the Senate had left for the Memorial Day weekend.

Even then, the fix only accounts for $22.9 billion of the $102 billion cost of the bill the House did pass on Friday. Most of the rest of the money is for extending unemployment benefits and special targeted tax breaks.

The $22.9 billion fix for the doctors’ fees—if passed by the Senate—would only last through September 2011. Then Congress will presumably do it all again—or let the Medicare system collapse.

In the meantime, Obamacare is supposed to cut half a trillion in spending from elsewhere in Medicare, while Obama’s budget—not counting the $54 billion in new debt included in this bill—is expected to add $9.8 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years.

In the mean time, Kathleen Sebelius has mailed out a propaganda brochure to millions of seniors with multiple false claims concerning Obama Care.  So blatant are the misrepresentations that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and seven of his GOP colleagues have written a letter to Sebelius demanding an explanation of the falsehoods contained in the brochure titled,

“Medicare and the new health care law — What it means for you,” published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

This is the sprawling center for implementation and management of Obama Care.  Therefore the brochure was printed by government employees with tax money.

How does the brochure misrepresent the facts about Obamacare? First, the brochure claims that under the new law, “the guaranteed Medicare benefits you currently receive will remain the same.” But the CMS’ own experts said in a report earlier this year that the new law’s cuts in Medicare spending may push as many as 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, “possibly jeopardizing access” to needed care for millions of seniors. There is no way that current Medicare benefits will remain the same if one of every seven medical providers is no longer profitable.

Second, the brochure claims Obamacare includes “improvements to Medicare Advantage,” but says nothing about the fact that the new law includes at least $130 billion in spending cuts for that program. Only in Obamaworld does a $130 billion spending cut in a program for millions of seniors qualify as an “improvement.”

McConnell noted in an angry floor speech last week about the CCS brochure that “the flier purports to inform seniors about what the health care bill would mean for them. Much of it directly contradicts what the administration’s own experts have said about the law. And all this is bought and paid for by the American taxpayer. So this is a complete outrage, and it’s precisely the kind of thing Americans are so angry about at the moment.”

Sebelious is employing the now familiar stalling tactic of the Obama Administration; waiting and hoping the problem will dissipate or go away or be replaced with a more interesting scandal.