Listen closely to how the media and the administration are talking about Medicare “overall”. Listen to them begin to talk about how structurally flawed it is – not just financially, but in substantive structure.
Creeping control. Listen.
Listen to them, the administration and the media, describe the fraud that exists within the Medicare program. Listen to the specific word choices.
Listen as they describe the feasibility of cutting the cost of Medicare by addressing the payment side (reimbursement) of the equation, and how they will NOT have to increase payments into the program. Listen to how they maintain the premise that Medicare Program is structurally sound – it just needs “tweaking”, and they can cut the “overall” cost of the medicare program without hitting the beneficiaries up for increased contribution rates or structural changes to the program.
$18.7 Trillion deficit (ceiling raised goal +2.5 Trillion) and they can simultaneously “save” the Medicare program. That’s what they’ll sell. Watch and listen closely while understanding the following: (more…)