Medicare Payment Fix To Cost Smokers, Obese, and Poor

The new legislation to fix the yearly Medicare doctor payment hole was passed by Congress and the House, and will be signed by President Obama this week. The legislation is not without costs however. To pay for the increased payments to doctors that treat Medicare patients, the administration will take money from a fund to help prevent smoking and obesity, and reduce payments to hospitals that treat large numbers of poor people.

What was that last one? Cut money going to hospitals that treat poor people? Won't that make it worse for those hospitals and the patients they treat?

I guess it decided that poor people don't vote as much, so the government will protect Medicare for the seniors that vote, and stick it to the poor people. Wow! That's government at it's finest!

Stay tuned for more.

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