House Panel Considers Increasing Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries

[Omaha Steve]

At bottom of link: http://www.afscme.org/issues/legislative-weekly-reports/week-ending-january-23-2015

Significant cuts in Medicare payments to physicians are scheduled to begin in April. How Congress chooses to pay for Medicare physician payment reform (roughly a $140 billion price tag) will have significant impact on the pocketbooks of current and future Medicare beneficiaries and employer-sponsored health plans. During two days of hearings, a House panel discussed increasing Medicare premiums for beneficiaries as a way to pay for a third of the cost. AFSCME strongly opposes paying for the bill by increasing out-of-pocket costs from Medicare beneficiaries and their retiree plans, either through higher premiums or higher deductibles or changing the age of eligibility.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. We were warned about the rule changes

coming from the Rethugs. Here we go again.

[newfie11]

2. and they will somehow blame this on Obama

Andthe idiot low information foxxxxc news voter will vote more repugs in!