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Caution to Seniors About Obamacare- Let The Buyer Beware

jcarroll4 Wrote: May 09, 2012 8:38 AM
Thank you, people need to be educated about the fact that Medicare as we have always known it was over the moment we learned it was 37$ unfunded. The question is now can we save Medicare as we know it, but what will the new Medicare look like. After the nation was subject to the painful process of reform that was promised to solve this urgent problem, we are left with a program still insolvent in the not too distant future and still seriously straining our nation's budget. Let every American be clear, the IPAB will be forced to tightly ration care by squeezing what it will and will not pay for. Do we want someone else rationing our care, or do we want vouchers and be left free to purchase our own products...

By Hal C. Scherz, MD and Richard A. Armstrong, MD

70 year old woman comes into her Urologist’s office in Atlanta frantic, because her internist has stopped seeing Medicare patients. A 76 year old man in South Florida needs a hip replacement but may not be able to have surgery because his orthopedic surgeon cannot find a cardiologist who will agree to see and evaluate him for surgery. These stories are true, told to me by doctors that I know personally. They are taking place in doctors’ offices all across the country each day and they are on the rise. This is...

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