Why the Obama Administration's New Medicare Payment Reform Plan Won't Live Up to the Hype
The administration wants to save billions by overhauling Medicare's payment incentives. The evidence shows how hard this is to do.
The administration wants to save billions by overhauling Medicare's payment incentives. The evidence shows how hard this is to do.
Marilyn Tavenner, one of the key officials behind Obamacare's botched federal exchange, is leaving her post.
Medicare may be making mistakes 20% of the time, school lunch programs 15%, and the Earned Income Tax Credit 25%.
These entitlement programs take money from the young and poor and give to the old and rich.
The conveyer belt to insolvency slows down just a bit.
Antidepressants, antipsychotics and drugs used to help with organ transplants
Web problems can be fixed, Obamacare cannot.
Say reimbursement rate was miscalculated
Try to force it in states where governors are resistant
As health care gets more bureaucratic, will doctors go Galt?
Charged with performing unnecessary procedures to bill to Medicare and Medicaid
Blame the "sequester" of course, despite increased D.C. spending
No room for anything else
Would rather he urge his fellow Democrats to support Medicare reform
He would offer the transformed program to those under 56
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