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  • Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
    Please, God. I'd like to finish paying my student loans before I'm 60.
    Sucks to be you:
    Starting today, doctors face a 21 percent cut in their reimbursements from Medicare based on a federal budget law that sets physican payments based on other economic factors. In past years, Congress has routinely waived such cuts. The House passed a bill to again postpone the cuts but a similar attempt in the Senate stalled last week. Many physicians and health professionals worry that the reimbursement reductions could cause doctors to see fewer Medicare patients.

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    Significant cuts to Medicare payments for doctors go into effect today. The House passed a bill to postpone the cuts but a similar Senate effort stalled. Many physicians and health professionals worry that the cuts could cause doctors to see fewer Medicare patients.
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    • Well **** me running.
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      • Originally posted by Drake Tungsten View Post
        Guy's salary is going to go up.
        What? You don't believe in the efficiency of markets anymore?
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        • Originally posted by Kidicious View Post
          What? You don't believe in the efficiency of markets anymore?
          I don't think you understand what efficiency means.

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          • What? You don't believe in the efficiency of markets anymore?



            You really are one of the stupidest people on this board.
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            • Doc fix means that the doctor pay cuts won't happen. And it's also one of several reasons why the healthcare bill has a huge deficit.
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              • This just keeps getting better!

                Congress may get fined by its own health-care law

                Congress may be fined tens of millions of dollars a year under its own health-care law, in part because the bill dumps members of Congress and their staffs from their current health-care plans.

                But no one really knows for sure what the bill does, not even the experts. For instance, exactly who qualifies as an “employer” — and therefore is subject to fines up to $3,000 per employee — is undefined in the bill.

                If Congress were subject to a $3,000 fine for each of its employees, it would need to shell out approximately $50 million each year to Uncle Sam. Congress’s research arm, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), informally confirmed the possibility to Republican aides.

                Kathleen Sebelius, President Obama’s top health-care cabinet official, will be responsible for establishing most of the details of how the law is implemented. Many Republicans who have raised the issue of Congress’s fining itself believe Sebelius likely will exempt Congress with a regulation narrowly defining “employer,” for instance.





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                • Awesome.
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                  For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                  • But no one really knows for sure what the bill does, not even the experts.
                    But it had to be passed at whatever cost.
                    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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                    • And you guys were against it.
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                      • The U.S. has 352,908 primary-care doctors now, and the college association estimates that 45,000 more will be needed by 2020. But the number of medical-school students entering family medicine fell more than a quarter between 2002 and 2007.

                        And how many of our doctors are foreign educated? I'm a little surprised that a WSJ article would miss something so obvious.
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                          • Originally posted by DaShi View Post
                            And you guys were against it.
                            And we are still against it.
                            huh?
                            If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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                            • My jokes always go over your head.
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                              • Report: Health overhaul will increase USA's tab

                                WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama's health care overhaul law will increase the nation's health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.

                                A report by economic experts at the Health and Human Services Department said the health care remake will achieve Obama's aim of expanding health insurance — adding 34 million Americans to the coverage rolls.

                                But the analysis also found that the law falls short of the president's twin goal of controlling runaway costs. It also warned that Medicare cuts may be unrealistic and unsustainable, driving about 15% of hospitals into the red and "possibly jeopardizing access" to care for seniors.

                                The mixed verdict for Obama's signature issue is the first comprehensive look by neutral experts.

                                In particular, the warnings about Medicare could become a major political liability for Democratic lawmakers in the midterm elections. Seniors are more likely to vote than younger people and polls show they are already deeply skeptical of the law.



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