Saturday, March 20, 2010

If Obamacare Passes, What Will Happen by Election Day?

by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann at townhall.com

Either the Medicare cuts will take effect or they will be postponed by a terrified Congress.

If they take effect, physicians' fees will be slashed 21 percent and hospital reimbursements for Medicare patients will be cut by $1.3 billion. Tens of thousands of doctors and thousands of health care institutions -- hospitals, hospices, outpatient clinics and such -- will refuse to treat Medicare patients…

Congress, being Congress, will probably seek to postpone the cuts until after Election Day… All pretense that Obamacare is not a reckless spending bill will be stripped away, and we will be face to face with the reality that it will add hugely to the deficit…

Either poison -- the cuts or the deficit -- will be enough to eradicate an entire generation of House and Senate Democrats. Read more… 

[ This truly deserves reading in its entirety. JS ]

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