I don't think we want to return to a time in history, when
older parents and grandparents lived with their children, when they got
too old to work. Sometimes, elders sold pencils on the street to buy
food.
When their children or grandchildren could not afford to take care of their elders, the elders were sent to county homes to die.
From a social and economic standpoint, it is better to provide excellent medical care for elders. Because, children and grandchildren cannot afford to care for elders today.
And, if children observed their own parents push grandparents into the street, this would surely impact their future relationships with their own parents.
Remember, the way you treat your parents and grandparents, is the way your own children will treat you when you get old. And of course, we will all grow old.
Another economic argument could be made with regard to the money America wastes in nation building, foreign aide, food relief to countries that hate us, wasteful government programs, and other assorted boondoggles.
America has plenty of money to provide everyone in America with excellent medical care. Washington wastes money on other things. So, my solution is to advise Washington to stop wasting money and provide all Americans with excellent medical care.
Medicare Advantage is a recently instituted federal program that allows individuals eligible for Medicare to opt to take their coverage from a private carrier, such as a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) of Preferred Provider Organization (PPO).
These MA deals usually offer somewhat better coverage at a somewhat higher price. The entire program is meant to introduce competition into the Medicare market--which places it in the Obama administration's cross hairs now that its crusade for health care reform has stalled.
Is global warming real, or have we been bamboozled and hoodwinked? Good question.
Deceitful liberals refuse to admit that temperatures are cooling: "Central Illinois experienced the seventh coldest summer on record with an average temperature of 71.1 degrees, 2 degrees below the normal average of 73.1 degrees. July was the coldest July on record, with an average temperature of 70.7 degrees, and August was the 10th coldest, with a 70.5-degree average."
President Obama has put a gag order on critics. The insurance companies are now banned from contacting their senior patients about ObamaCare. Shame on Obama.
The other day I told you about the gag order the White House put on private insurance companies. Essentially, our imperial federal government has decided to tell some private health insurance companies that they cannot contact their customers about healthcare reform legislation.This was in response to a mailer sent out by Humana which stated that seniors will experience a cut in benefits if the healthcare bill becomes law. So ... here we have the government telling private companies who they can and cannot communicate with, and what they can and cannot say regarding federal policies or impending legislation. How Hugo Chavezesque!
Racism, a tool by Democrats to silence critics about ObamaCare. For decades now, the Democrats have been masters at playing the race card. Just like a card shark in Las Vegas, the Democrats always hold the race card in their boot to pound their critics. Shame on the Democrats.
There's an old adage popular among lawyers: If your case is weak on the law, pound the facts. If it's weak on the facts, pound the law. If your case is weak on the facts and the law, pound the table.
Democrats—frustrated by the public's resistance to their grand scheme to federalize health care and desperate to discredit legitimate opposition by changing the terms of the debate—are pounding the table, invoking allegations of racism as the motivation for the opposition.
Medicare Advantage is a program for seniors. It allows seniors to select a managed care program. This program has been an excellent alternative for senior, because it provides better health care generally than regular Medicare. I hope ObamaCare does not eliminate this program.
Obama's budget request would create "running room for health reform," the official said, by reducing spending on some health programs so the administration would have money to devote to initiatives to expand coverage.
The biggest target is bonus payments to insurance companies that run managed-care programs under Medicare, known as Medicare Advantage.
The Bush-era program has attracted nearly a quarter of Medicare beneficiaries to private health insurance plans that cover a package of services such as doctor visits, prescription drugs and eyeglasses.
But the government pays the plans 13 to 17 percent more than it pays for traditional fee-for-service coverage, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, which advises Congress on Medicare financing issues.
