Government proposes to cut Medicare and Medicaid

[doc03]

reimbursement if more than 5% of the hospital staff is obese. Is there any truth to this? A story was in our paper Sunday (linked below) and it has also become the Obamacare horror story of the day on talk radio. The Administrator at a local hospital said Sunday that was a proposal made by the Health Care Commission. If this is true how f----g stupid could these people be after passing this unpopular HCR bill to come up with something like that? That adds more fuel to the fire over the HCR bill and right before the election to top it off.
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/540714.html

[steve2470]

1. I think we'd already be.... aghast by now... no nt

[doc03]

2. I searched and can't find anything either confirming or

denying it. Did the hospital Administrator just come up with it out of thin air?

[Better Believe It]

3. That's not true.

However, most progressives believe that Obama's "deficit commission" will propose big cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Benefit cuts that Republicans will certainly support.

[doc03]

4. How do you know it is not true? The Administrator claims he

heard about it from a friend that is on the HCR Commission? This is a Republican paper I am sure if any prominent person from the health care industry came to them with something against Obamacare they wouldn't have any problem printing it without checking it out though. This story has everyone fired up about Socialism and Obamacare.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Well, to start with, there's no such thing as a Health Care Reform Bill Commission. There was a

National Healthcare Workforce Commission established in Title V, Subsection B, Sec. 5101, but it shouldn't be operational as yet (Sept. 30, 2010). It is to meet quarterly and provide a report yearly on the best way to train, retain, and use healthcare workers.

[maddogg41283]

6. Idle Guessing

Here's all you need to know about this supposed proposal. From the article:
"The proposal has yet to be officially drafted into any kind of law."
No proposal, not even a bill that's been entered into congress. I think you can relax.

[doc03]

7. But the article served it's purpose to scare people about

Obamacare never the less. That was the subject this morning on the radio, "Now you see what happens when the government takes over health care." You notice also that he used that he used that for an excuse to not give pay increases to hospital employees. At the end it seems obvious where he stands when he mentions the possibility of repealing the HCR bill.