Changing Its Name Won’t Fix barrycare

[chefdennis]

LOL, these fricken criminals know that the people are screaming at them about the "public option" in this garbage barrycare plan...so they try to hide it by calling it another name.....

2010 cannot get here fast enough...

how many of you barry supporters are seeing the light and have figured that barry lied to you, he isn't what he said he was, and that all you bought into was his "share the wealth", he was going to give you something he took for the rich....lol yeap keep standing in lines for an app to get your 'obamamoney' from his stash.....LOL...

Changing Its Name Won’t Fix Obamacare

October 21st, 2009 at 4.36pm
Changing Its Name Won?t Fix Obamacare The Foundry

The latest ploy to promote Obamacare is to rename it after something popular. Giving it the title of “Medicare Part E” is the newest tactic.

The package might look different, but inside is the same old stuff: Government-run health care that is so expensive that it threatens our economy today and our future tomorrow.

Although popular, Medicare already is sinking under $38-trillion in unfunded future liabilities. Adding trillions in new spending will make Medicare sink even faster.

Adding Obamacare to Medicare threatens the program that seniors rely upon and lessens the chances of ever fixing Medicare’s financial problems.

Because Medicare lowballs its payments to health providers, it causes them to charge more to other patients to make up the difference. Already, according to the Milliman Group, non-Medicare families already pay an extra $1,800 a year in higher health bills. Shifting millions more people into Medicare would worsen this cost-shifting onto everyone else. It especially hurts health care in rural areas, where Medicare reimbursement rates are the lowest.

The effort to recast their government-run “public option” as part of Medicare shows the dilemma of Obama and his allies on Capitol Hill. Whether they call it Medicare Part E, Happy Health Care, or Santa Claus, a catchy name doesn’t change what they’re doing. Their plan would expand central planning and price controls. It would add tens of thousands of pages of regulations, rules, guidelines, and administrative decisions to the sea of red tape that already jacks up the costs of health care and insurance by creating enormous hidden costs on the system.

Giving their messy plan the name of “Medicare Part E” is only the latest tactic. Each day they try to put a fresh face on the plan, but under the mask it’s always the same old big government and big spending approach.