Kick Grannie and Grandpa One More Time

[Tony1941]

In my 80 plus years, I have not seem so much chicanery from the media, the entrenched political parties and special interest groups.

The Payroll Tax cut is really a raid on the Social Security Trust Funds (Hey!! John Kerry The lock box is being depleted and you are silent.) In 2011, 115 billion were diverted from the Social Security income stream to pay for the Obama Payroll Tax Cut.
Billions of dollars wasted on a multitude of federal programs with special assistance to local and state politicians and state and municipal employee unions.

The Doctor Fix is really an increase on medical fees on those on Medicare. In 1997, POTUS Clinton signed into law a bill that computed Dr. fees based on several economic indicators. The formula calls for a 27% cut in the fees that Medicare will reimburse doctors. Nobody will make a motion to repeal the law because it would become evident that the doctor fix is not supported by the facts. So we kick the can down the road and screw grandpa and grandma.
Two years ago, slime ball Teddy got up from his death bed to cast a vote in support of the Medicare fees doctor fix. He wa hailed a the savior of Medicare. Bull Hockey, grandpa and grandma are paying higher Part B so the doctors can continue to afford their expensive palaces and vacation homes and bacchanalian parties out of the pocket of the meager income and savings of the elderly.
The premiums for Medicare Part B will go up in 2012 to help pay for the Medicare doctor fix.

Merry Holidays-to one and all Kick Grannie and Grandpa a couple of more times. They will not be around much longer.

[Dick]

Tony,

It's called the Survival of the fittest.

[longbow shooter]

Doctors charge the same high price to treat young people as they do old people. What's the problem? Its not an old VS young issue like Obama's class warfare. If you wanted lower doctor's fees, where were you entitled people when Obama -care was being bantied around with no provisions for tort reform? A mojor contributor to sky high medical bills, frivolous law suits, was not addressed in Obama's comunist vision of our medical industry. Go cast another vote for our liar/enemy-in-chief.

[Amber]

The high malpractice rates in MA plus lack of meaningful tort reform cost us the best family practice physician I've ever had. Dr. Beck's parting letter explained how he paid more for his wife's root canal than an insurer paid for him to follow an OB patient for her entire pregnancy, up to and including delivery. They moved out of state shortly thereafter. Sad.

Politicians are only out for politicians, every vote is for sale despite their respective partisan talking points. With exceptions being few and far between (Ron Paul comes to mind).