Thread: More 'Change' - Obama Calls For Cuts In Medicare, Medicaid

Obama calls for cuts in Medicare and Medicaid

16 June 2009

Over the weekend, President Barack Obama called for cuts in funding for Medicare and Medicaid, the federal health insurance programs for the elderly and the poor, including the elimination of subsidies for hospitals that treat uninsured patients. This proposal, combined with plans to limit medical tests and treatments, underscores the reactionary, anti-working class character of Obama’s proposed “reformâ€

including the elimination of subsidies for hospitals that treat uninsured patients

NOW correct me if Im wrong, but wont this make more hospitals go bankrupt and close down???
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If the health care system was not fixed, he warned, “America may go the way of GM,â€

SO Obama is ending Medicare and Medicaid for one reason its expensive and doesn't work the way it should. And its ran by the government.
SO how would universal care for everyone be any different.
It will be expensive and it will be ran by the government.
and it will be many times more massive a program then Medicaid and Medicare. I don't see it working.

Welcome Qwest! Have the same opinion. If our federal government were a private business they would have gone out of business years ago.