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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:30 AM Original message |
Obama's prescription: $320 billion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. Virtually all on providers - very good. |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:35 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. "virtually"... Spin. |
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emulatorloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 10:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. History tells me you are the one who is spinning. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 02:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
25. No, Bluebear is right. Cuts to providers are cuts to a stressed program |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 03:49 AM Response to Reply #25 |
28. MDs and nurses are very depressed. |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 11:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Can you back that up with a link? |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 12:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. "90% of Medicare/caid cuts come from reducing overpayments" |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 06:07 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. The same article says this? |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 03:12 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Anyone who thinks that Medicare is overpaying for services |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Not sure how they're overcharging |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 02:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
24. For a lot of those services that they mentioned, |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 03:53 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. ^ There it is, US health care system resembles that of India. Google, read. You'll be surpr |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:37 AM Response to Original message |
3. Slash payments to drug companies and guess what? |
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banned from Kos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:48 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I remember when liberals complained (me included) when Bush would not let |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. You've got to be kidding me |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
4. Uh oh. |
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durablend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:40 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. +1 to zero |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:42 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Thanks durablend. |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 10:12 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. It's unseemly to complain about UnRecs of your own thread. |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 10:33 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Thank you elocs. I'm pretty positive all of DU is aware |
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Old Codger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
9. Main concern here |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 10:20 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Good point n/t |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 01:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. + |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 10:29 AM Response to Original message |
13. So for Medicare, 135 billion out of the 6.4 trillion we will spend over 10 years. |
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dtexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 11:10 AM Response to Original message |
15. The reforms to Part D are needed. |
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Auntie Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
16. It's going to be tough on people and family members who have |
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chill_wind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-20-11 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
18. Families USA Press Release |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 01:53 AM Response to Original message |
23. Are these cuts in addition to the 500 billions of dollars of cuts that went through as part of the |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 03:45 AM Response to Original message |
27. GOP will never agree to cutting drug company profits. |
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Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-21-11 03:54 AM Response to Original message |
30. But let's not cut 'defense' spending. |
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