Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

News about our health care next year if you have a Advantage plan.



Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2014
Sarah Swinehart 202-226-4774

NEW REPORT: Seniors Face $3,700 in Cuts to
Health Care & Medicine
Affordable Care Act cuts of $300 billion to Medicare Advantage
plans begin hitting seniors next year
Washington, DC – America’s elderly could soon see their health care cut by $3,700 per year due to sweeping Medicare cuts included in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

In testimony before the Health Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dr. Robert Book of the Health Systems Innovation Network unveiled a new analysis by the American Action Network that shows seniors enrolled in popular Medicare Advantage plans will see a loss of benefits equaling of $1,530 in 2015 alone – and growing to $3,700 when the cuts are fully phased-in in 2017.

The result, says Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), is “Thanks to the Affordable Care Act our elderly will see their health care and medicines cut, pay higher co-pays and deductibles, or have access to fewer local doctors and health care providers. Our seniors simply can’t afford less health care or higher costs.”

Frail seniors and those with the most severe chronic illnesses may be hurt the worst by the cuts, predicted Brady.

Today 16 million seniors are enrolled in Medicare Advantage, and more than half of new Medicare patients are choosing Medicare Advantage plans because they provide coordinated care, more predictable costs and caps on what seniors have to pay out-of-pocket.

“These cuts begin hurting seniors in 2015 because the White House delayed most of the original ObamaCare cuts past the recent e******ns. Although the White House is hoping no one notices, make no mistake that seniors in every state and nearly every county in America will be impacted beginning next year,” added Brady.

In fact, Chris Wing CEO of SCAN Health Plan in California testified that seniors are just now beginning to feel the cuts and, because 80 percent of the Medicare cuts have yet to take effect, SCAN will be forced to withdraw their Medicare Advantage plans from some communities in 2015, hitting low income and minority seniors particularly hard.

A link to the American Action Network analysis which identifies Medicare Advantage cuts for seniors in each congressional district in America is provided at http://www.dontcutourmedicare.com/medicare or http://americanactionnetwork.org/topic/aan-releases-study-examining-medicare-advantage-cuts-congressional-district

Hemiman Loc: Communist California

Obama care was supposed to save $2,700 when it started,you can keep your Dr.and if you like your plan you can keep your plan,just more lies from Osatan.

Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

OH! I don't think we have seen all the costs yet, wait till they quit subsidizing the insurance companies for their losses.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Think your right, this is just the beginning and at some point this will effect the liberals. Will they say 'ouch' or will the suck it up?

Elwood Loc: Florida

You haven't seen anything yet.

JMHO Loc: Utah

This part of those "death panels" Palin was talking about. The liberals don't care about the senior citizens and plan to k**l off as many as they can.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

Those at 60 if democrat or republican need to sit back and think real hard as that will be them in a few short years.

Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

And probably more than seniors!

She Wolf Loc: Currently Georgia

We have always had death panels, they are comprised of insurance companies that deny benefits resulting in the death of their clients. I don't much care for Obama Care. I want a one payer system. Then we can control the cost of medical treatment.

She Wolf Loc: Currently Georgia

We have always had death panels, they are comprised of insurance companies that deny benefits resulting in the death of their clients. I don't much care for Obama Care. I want a one payer system. Then we can control the cost of medical treatment.

JMHO Loc: Utah

Single payer system will not be much different than Obamacare...it is still government run and controlled healthcare. The cost will go up due to the typical government inefficiency, and the quality will go down.

A better system is that you buy your own healthcare insurance...buy what you need. Let the insurance companies operate across state lines. Health insurance savings accounts will work also. But, to let this inept, incompetent, bloated, partisan, inefficient government control healthcare, whether it be Obamacare or a single payer system, will result in higher costs, lower quality, longer waits, and k*****g one hell of a lot more than the insurance companies denying claims do. For an example, just look at the VA.

bmac32 Loc: West Florida

You don't want single payer and need tests for you or family. First wait times for the test are longer, then the time for them to send the results to the doctor is much longer and finally getting to see your primary, that depends on your doctor, then there's getting into a specialist.

http://getbetterhealth.com/wait-times-for-medical-care-how-the-us-actually-measures-up/2010.02.02

Bigmac495 Loc: Indiana

They will lie and deny !