This is the beginning of a national health plan

The current Senate healthcare reform (sic: “reduction”) act written by Sen. Max Baucus and his Finance Committee proposes to reduce Medicare physician payments by 25% in 2011. This very reduction permitted the Congressional Budget Office to report the senator's bill would save money. How do you reduce a physician's payment by 25% and expect them to continue seeing Medicare patients? The answer: You cannot. Hence, Obama Care enters the picture in the mist of a Medicare “crisis”—which they created/engineered and will take advantage of—and mandates that physicians must take a percentage of Medicare patients or they will not be eligible to receive any government reimbursement.

The current bill is just the beginning of an eight-year implementation of a public national health plan, period. I don’t trust Obama or the federal government.

Bill Kaupas

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