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In reply to the discussion: On January 1st doctors treating Medicare patients will get a 30% cut..."fiscal cliff". [View all]shintao
(487 posts)18. This goes back to who we elect
I am not concerned with the doctors, they are averaging $350,000. according to Med scape, and a lot of their business is private insurance anyway.
Everybody else should be upset with what the capitalist delivered as health care. When you start voting in people that actually have a socialist bone in their back, you can get started on National Health Care and put this painful problem behind us.
Just by going to National gasoline at $2.00 a gallon we can completely fund 100% National Health Care in America. It is a damned disgrace to be richest country and not care for our own people, while caring for everybody else's.
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On January 1st doctors treating Medicare patients will get a 30% cut..."fiscal cliff". [View all]
madfloridian
Dec 2012
OP
Lawmakers have been trying to address health care costs for years but then never have the fortitude
dkf
Dec 2012
#1
I added the poverty numbers to my post. It also shows the elderly are the most prioritized demo.
dkf
Dec 2012
#9
They have stopped it just in time for years. This year, I don't know about that.
madfloridian
Dec 2012
#4
Many drs will stop taking Medicare patients. People in small cities, towns, rural...
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#14
Interesting. I was wondering if that would happen. Didn't the economic wizards who cut the benefits
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#41
Isn't Plouffe just such a douche canoe? Here's another main driver of the deficit:
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#16