Medicare fix would push health care into the red

[spursncowboys]

Medicare fix would push health care into the red

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red.

The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would cost $208 billion over 10 years. If added back to the health care overhaul bill, it would wipe out all the deficit reduction, leaving the legislation $59 billion in the red.

The so-called doc fix was part of the original House bill. Because of its high cost, Democrats decided to pursue it separately. Republicans say the cost should not be ignored. Congress has usually waived the cuts to doctors year by year.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Medica....html?x=0&.v=2

[Marcus Bryant]

Since that is from the redneck teabagger AP it can be easily dismissed.

[baseline bum]

Damn. That money could get us 5 more months in Iraq.

[Marcus Bryant]

And obviously the solution is to create an en lement larger than the current one which is unsustainable to replace it.

[EmptyMan]

Unless humanity ceases to exist, future generations can let future generations pay for it.

Gah!

Please do not stand in the way of reform.