Comments for President Obama's Medicare Plan Eliminated Two-Thirds of the Projected Shortfall: Tell a Reporter or Columnist Near You at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.cepr.net Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:24:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president-obamas-medicare-plan-eliminated-two-thirds-of-the-projected-shortfall-tell-a-reporter-or-columnist-near-you#comment-18267 The Republican solution for health care is Republicancare. The same system that has miserably failed for decades. It's the system that leaves 25% uninsured or underinsured and kills anywhere from 25,000 to 40,000 every year. It's the system that wastes $1 trillion per year ($3200 per every american x $3200) compared to every other developed country. It's the system that is controlled by big corporate medical price gougers who pay for the campaigns of the phony fiscal conservatives who won't be happy until the make the US health system even more of a total failure. - FoonTheElder Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:18:16 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president-obamas-medicare-plan-eliminated-two-thirds-of-the-projected-shortfall-tell-a-reporter-or-columnist-near-you#comment-18160 If you've not yet read this book by Harriet Washington, then do. It's well written, carefully researched, fascinating, and makes the case for dismantling the patent system. [url]http://www.randomhouse.com/book/185984/deadly-monopolies-by-harriet-a-washington[/url] [img]http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/cover/?source=9780385528924&height=450&.jpg[/img] - David Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:27:52 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president-obamas-medicare-plan-eliminated-two-thirds-of-the-projected-shortfall-tell-a-reporter-or-columnist-near-you#comment-18158 Dr. Baker: There is an interesting article in the current New Yorker magazine (Aug 13/20) "BIG MED" under Annals of Health Care. It reports on attempts to standardize procedures (to improve efficiency), and for physicians to learn to train others (best practices and all that). Check it out. - Ethan Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:40:36 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president-obamas-medicare-plan-eliminated-two-thirds-of-the-projected-shortfall-tell-a-reporter-or-columnist-near-you#comment-18156 It would perhaps be worthwhile to summarize what these mechanisms are and whether there are other reasons for the higher shortfall back in 2009, such as lower tax revenue from the recession? What an absolute monstrosity of a bill the ACA was, nearly impossible to make any sense of these endless projections and estimates. In any case, whatever you cut from Medicare is going to be made up in the private market, so I'd expect the costs to the average taxpayer will be similar, whether we classify it as FICA or just other healthcare costs. - jerry Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:06:03 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president-obamas-medicare-plan-eliminated-two-thirds-of-the-projected-shortfall-tell-a-reporter-or-columnist-near-you#comment-18153 And free market! - f.fursty Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:01:54 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president-obamas-medicare-plan-eliminated-two-thirds-of-the-projected-shortfall-tell-a-reporter-or-columnist-near-you#comment-18152 It has been pretty consistent in that the GOP Machine will turn your opponent's apparent strength into a cold-callous assault vs. humanity. Your opponent in this case, the Dem would struggle trying to explain the technicality. Henceforth, more than 60% of the white men who are not college-educated support Bishop Romney as many of them listen to the hyperbole, lie or whatever. Then you have the Dem would use terms like misrepresenation, not true, inaccurate, etc., such pleasantry. - James Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:55:42 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/president-obamas-medicare-plan-eliminated-two-thirds-of-the-projected-shortfall-tell-a-reporter-or-columnist-near-you#comment-18150 Ironically, the Republican line has been that the cost-containment measures, which will result in decreased Medicare spending, are "cuts" and that Obama is "gutting" Medicare by $700 billion. - saurabh Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:42:07 +0100