The Medicare cuts start 4/1/2025

[BluesLegend]

this order lets the drug price gouging resume.

^^^ oh look there's a Dem fear mongering

 

[BluesLegend]

Get rid of thr fraud but cuts beyond that are not necessary.

The $36 TRILLION dollar debt begs to differ.

 

[CowboyTed]

Yes, definitely. It prevents crowded waiting rooms, and it saves patients a lot of travel time just to get a presciption refilled.

Also, there are a lot of tests which can be done at home now. You'd be surprised at the various test kits and equipment which can be mailed to a patient and performed at home.

I joined the Million Veteran Program and they mailed me a device which does a blood draw. I was amazed. All I had to do was mail it back and they could check my blood for all kinds of disorders.

There are blood sugar kits you can buy over the counter and provide the results to your doctor who can then prescribe medication if you need to get your blood sugar down.

What's more, a doctor can order a blood draw via telehealth, then you travel to the closest clinic to have it done. So instead of a trip to the doctor, and then a trip to the clinic (which is often at a different location), you only have to make one trip.

Then when the results come in, the doctor can talk to you via telehealth and mail the necessary medications.

No more waiting forever in a waiting room or dealing with traffic. No more risk of being around people with infectious diseases in the waiting room.

I could go on and on.



Anyone who thinks our deficit is because of telehealth is an idiot.

Outside America there is talk of a massive increase in tele/web medicine...

Say you are diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes...

There is a program that sends you a scales, blood pressure monitor, glucose monitor which sends all their readings to a centralised monitoring system. Your Doctor has set up alarms on the system if certain measurements are breached and you receive a call or sms to ask how you are getting on and do you need help...
This is proactive medicine which is highly effective at reducing costs of far more expensive treatments...

AI can be used later to gain more incite... All the software we rob from Marketing software (same type of stats that tell us will this guy buy a car, is the same fundamentally as will this person get cancer)...

There is talk of this offering ways a person can make small changes which could make their lives considerably healthier.. Like getting more scans because they are at risk..

 

[CowboyTed]

Won't be enough; Medicare spending is projected to rise from 10% of total Federal Spending in 2021 to 18% of total Federal Spending by 2032 (3.1% of GDP to 3.9% of GDP), that is NOT sustainable, especially given the explosion of federal debt service costs.

Either costs need to be brought down, premiums will need to increase, benefits will need to be cut or some combination of all 3.

Option B is we all get to experience the effects of a sovereign debt crisis up close and personal.

Want to cut waste...

Do what EU do... Negotiate Drug Prices....

Ozempic as an example...

Yep... Nordisk a Danish company has negotiated those prices with those countries...
As per EU law, a regulate Citizen gets the price the Government negoiates. That is for nearly every prescription drug.

Do we see the connection here?
The GOP have resisted at every step for Medicare and Medicaid negotiate drug prices and US doesn't have that equality law like in EU..
Do we get it yet...
This isn't fraud, this is bribery..

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/17/trump-drug-prices-gop-concerns

And by the way, Trump tarrif plans are just going to make this a lot worse...

 

[initforme]

The $36 TRILLION dollar debt begs to differ.

Programs people have paid into needn't be affected.

 

[NetJedi]

Want to cut waste...

Do what EU do... Negotiate Drug Prices....

Ozempic as an example...

Yeah, that's going to happen given Big Pharma owns our Congress Critters lock, stock and barrel, they'll talk about it sure, but they'll never actually do it at a scale large enough to make a difference. Unless of course that is if the voters finally wake up and make taking money from the drug companies politically lethal; but alas the drug companies control the Mainstream Media with their advertising dollars as well, so fat chance of that happening.

The U.S. has the best politicians corporate campaign contributions can buy.

 

[protectionist]

No, Kahtleen Romig, Director of Social Security. Previously on the Social Security Advisor Board and worked at the Congressional Research Office.

WW

https://www.cbpp.org/blog/setting-the-record-straight-on-social-security

But she cannot be considered an objective, disinterested party. If what the DOGE dept is claiming is true, then her job is toast for not revealing the alleged frauds/abuses before now.

So of course she will say everything is just dandy. What would we expect her to say ? That the whole agency is teeming with fraud...please fire me ?

 

[protectionist]

Economically, Telehealth is use to save costs.

It is also weighted more towards rural areas where there is more support for GOP..

This is not the smartest move politically....

BTW, this cut to Medicaid is to pay for a tax cut... Do we really think Americans are going to think this is a good deal?

Yes, if Medicaid cuts away benefits to people who aren't enrolled legitimately (ex. Illegal aliens)

 

[protectionist]

What to Know about Medicare Spending and Financing | KFF

This brief provides an overview of Medicare spending and financing, based on the most recent historical and projected data from the Medicare Trustees and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The brief highlights trends in Medicare spending and key drivers of spending growth, including higher...

www.kff.org

"Medicare spending (net of income from premiums and other offsetting receipts) is projected to rise from 10% of total federal spending in 2021 to 18% in 2032, and from 3.1% to 3.9% of GDP over these years, due to growing Medicare enrollment, increased use of services and intensity of care, and rising health care costs."

Sounds odd.

 

[Zincwarrior]

View attachment 1082689

Yes, we are. MAGA LOSERS WILL DIE MORE QUICKLY.

 

[WorldWatcher]

But she cannot be considered an objective, disinterested party. If what the DOGE dept is claiming is true, then her job is toast for not revealing the alleged frauds/abuses before now.

So of course she will say everything is just dandy. What would we expect her to say ? That the whole agency is teeming with fraud...please fire me ?

I’m on my phone now, but check the links I’ve previously posted.

The Trump Administration census data showed about 92,000 Americans over the age of 100, data reports from the SSA showed, for example, 89,106 SS beneficiaries paid in December 2024.

Pretty damn close. No where near the discrepancy of millions of people implied by Musk.

WW

 

[protectionist]

I’m on my phone now, but check the links I’ve previously posted.

The Trump Administration census data showed about 92,000 Americans over the age of 100, data reports from the SSA showed, for example, 89,106 SS beneficiaries paid in December 2024.

Pretty damn close. No where near the discrepancy of millions of people implied by Musk.

WW

77 million Americans voted for Trump. His appointee for DOGE is Musk (who has nothing to gain).

So DOGE is the bottom line. In DOGE we trust.

 

[MarathonMike]

How in hell did people ever use Medicare prior to telehealth?

Wait, this sounds more and more like the liberals fear mongering tactic.

From your source, "While some Medicare telehealth services will still be available after April 1st, including services related to strokes and mental/behavioral health, the cuts are expected to limit broader access for millions of people in America."

Doesn't sound like things are etched in stone.

Just another smelly pants puffer from the Lord of Flatulence. PHEW!

 

[dudmuck]

^^^ oh look there's a Dem fear mongering

Howard Lutnick will gut social security and medicare. This is his own words.

 

[BluesLegend]

Howard Lutnick will gut social security and medicare. This is his own words.

When you attempt to fear monger the same fear mongering talking point for 50 straight years Americans...at you.

 

[dudmuck]

When you attempt to fear monger the same fear mongering talking point for 50 straight years Americans...at you.

Howard Lutnik says, "You know Social Security is wrong. You know Medicaid and Medicare are wrong. So he's going to cut a trillion, and then we'll get rid of all these tax scams that hammer against America, and we're going to raise $1 trillion of revenue."

These are not my words, they are his.

 

[krichton]

How in hell did people ever use Medicare prior to telehealth?

Wait, this sounds more and more like the liberals fear mongering tactic.

From your source, "While some Medicare telehealth services will still be available after April 1st, including services related to strokes and mental/behavioral health, the cuts are expected to limit broader access for millions of people in America."

Doesn't sound like things are etched in stone.

Why don't you ask an elderly patient who lives in a rural area how it feels to consult with a doctor, sometimes over something minor, as opposed to traveling however long and far in order to see them in person for the exact same consultation, while waiting maybe a couple of hours before they're seen.

 

[WorldWatcher]

77 million Americans voted for Trump. His appointee for DOGE is Musk (who has nothing to gain).

So DOGE is the bottom line. In DOGE we trust.

Well, we know the answer to that question.

WW
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[JLW]

Rump had nothing to do with it child.

That is exactly what I would expect a sheep to say.

 

[Meister]

Why don't you ask an elderly patient who lives in a rural area how it feels to consult with a doctor, sometimes over something minor, as opposed to traveling however long and far in order to see them in person for the exact same consultation, while waiting maybe a couple of hours before they're seen.

Why don't you wait and see how this really shakes out, instead of making assumptions
on what the pundits are telling you?