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Considering that those three programs consume around 60% of the total federal budget, it makes sense to cut those entitlements since they are unsustainable. The fourth largest consumer of the federal budget is Defense spending, and that should also be cut by a like amount. The fifth biggest chunk of the federal budget goes to pay for the interest on the National Debt. Obviously that is one item that cannot be reduced, at least until we start paying off the National Debt.
Combined, MediCare/MedicAid, Social Security, and Defense spending constitute over 75% of the federal budget. By "cut" I do not mean reducing the overall growth, I mean an actual reduction in spending. Not over a 10 year period, but within the same session of Congress.
Would you consider allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices as a cut in spending?
Would you consider allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices as a cut in spending?
Absolutely not. This is what has been causing health insurance prices to skyrocket in the first place. MediCare pays doctors pennies on the dollar for services rendered, therefore the cost is past on to the consumer. 90% of the doctors will not touch MediCare patients in Alaska, and I do not blame them.
By allowing the government to pay less than the market value for drugs, once again it will be the consumer who picks up the portion not paid by the government. If not for MediCare/MedicAid, insurance premiums and doctor bills would be much more reasonable today. Government is the primary cause for the skyrocketing health care costs, and ObamaCare will make it ten times worse than it already is today.
Absolutely not. This is what has been causing health insurance prices to skyrocket in the first place. MediCare pays doctors pennies on the dollar for services rendered, therefore the cost is past on to the consumer. 90% of the doctors will not touch MediCare patients in Alaska, and I do not blame them.
By allowing the government to pay less than the market value for drugs, once again it will be the consumer who picks up the portion not paid by the government. If not for MediCare/MedicAid, insurance premiums and doctor bills would be much more reasonable today. Government is the primary cause for the skyrocketing health care costs, and ObamaCare will make it ten times worse than it already is today.
So you don't support saving $156 billion over ten years?
Not on the backs of doctors, their patients, and the rest of the health care industry. MediCare/MedicAid should never have existed at the federal level in the first place. The best thing for the nation would be to abolish them completely. Let the States decide whether or not they wish to subsidize people's health care, that is not the place for the federal government.
Not on the backs of doctors, their patients, and the rest of the health care industry. MediCare/MedicAid should never have existed at the federal level in the first place. The best thing for the nation would be to abolish them completely. Let the States decide whether or not they wish to subsidize people's health care, that is not the place for the federal government.
I came across a townhall column written by Dan Holler. He's basically saying that the GOP should avoid a grand bargain that greatly reduces the deficit because it would help Obama politically. What happened to country before party?
I came across a townhall column written by Dan Holler. He's basically saying that the GOP should avoid a grand bargain that greatly reduces the deficit because it would help Obama politically. What happened to country before party?
The GOP has always been politics first and country last. That's why they spent most of the last four years deliberately trying to make the economy worse and refusing to pass anything which would actually help the economy.
Oh, well, at least they spent all of their time passing dozens and dozens of bills to stripe women of their rights and get between a woman and her doctor, right?
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