Unbecoming of a President. Really? Well, he has already been to Israel.
Romney lies about everything and this is just another time.
He doesn't really expect people to believe if Medicare is not changed, there will be solvency in the future. He is expecting everyone to consent to the idea the current Seniors are not going to be sabotaged, but, only the Seniors of the future will.
He loves these gimmicks. It was the flashing red numbers about the national debt. Then he fudged the numbers about unemployed women after 2008. Now this. Romney loves deception, half truths and lies.
...”Our plan is, (click title to entry - thank you) for people 55 years of age and older, there’s no change. The only change I’d mention for 55 or older is we’d restore the $817 billion President Obama took out of the Medicare trust fund,” Romney told WBAY — apparently erroneously adding almost $100 billion to the amount of money he typically accuses Obama of taking from Medicare....
When do the grown ups arrive?
Romney wants to restore Medicare Advantage. He won't be able to expand on it, because, the vouchers won't pay for the entire cost of subscribing. And if there are vouchers, I guarantee there won't be any Silver Sneakers Programs either.
If there were ever standards for a voucher, it would have to be met with a cost of living raise at the same rate as SSI. Is Romney/Ryan really ready to discuss that and solvency? I am sure they are not at all ready to reasonably discuss numbers.
The USA medical system is out of control when it comes to cost. Cost containment is the most important issue. It needs to come into alignment with standards setting excellent care, but, removing all the duplicity of exams, tests, etc. The only traumatic topic people in a hospitals should be worried about is the illness or injury they face, not the blatant reality of affording the care without health care insurance.
That is the America I understand. Nothing unreasonable standing in the way of care. A health care system that responds to the disease or the injury and not the billing office. Nixon and managed care really did a number on this nation. It made a mess no one can clean up today. Managed care under Nixon was about profits, not people.
Unless we address the cost of care, we won't get the cost under control. If that occurs there is no change to the Medicare system or health care insurance industry that will end the expense, year after year.
The health care industry has been exempt from ridicule in their cost, that is not the case in other industries. Costs to consumers matter and the profession needs to seek to streamline and reduce their costs as a method to access. It is unethical for the profession to simply look the other way while costs skyrocket. The profession needs to accurately and dispassionately look to their costs in relation to access by the people they care for. No American believes paying for health care is wrong, however, they have to be able to afford it.
If corporate health care insurance systems are not the best venue for the American people, than what is? I am sure the professions have their own opinions. I can't believe any professional wants to turn away Medicare patients. Their professional organizations need to work on programs that work for the people of the USA and their physicians.
Everyone knows vouchers are the worst idea that exists and it drops the Seniors at the curb to fend for themselves. It won't be a matter of accessibility if they can't pay for the unpaid balance of their health care insurance costs.
The entire pool of Seniors are necessary to obtain the best costs for the elderly. There can't be smaller pools of sicker people. It won't work.
The USA has a lot health problems, part of lowering health care costs is having a healthier America. There is no quick fix for the country.
Having the federal government dump all the responsibility assigned them with the development of the Medicare program is not remotely responsible. Vouchers do nothing but dump that responsibility. It is the easy way out.
The cost curve has to be bent down and that will take place in time, not overnight. I'll tell you one thing, with the Affordable Care Act a part of the USA, there won't be promotion of unhealthy eating habits as before, there won't be ignoring obesity as a health care crisis.
So while Sununu continues to make a fool of himself seeking leverage on meaningless rhetoric, the real problems of solving the nation's health is before us. Real responsibility with real solutions are needed, not calling the Medicare problem solvent by dumping the responsibility of Seniors currently 55 or younger by the curbs of hospitals.
There is no voucher program that can predict the future costs of health care, it is not remotely responsible to take this approach.
