Chuck Schumer proposes Medicare rationing

 When speaking on  “Meet the Press” yesterday, Chuck Shumer had this to say about Medicare under his proposed “reform” plan:

“The root of the problem is a cost-plus system,” said Schumer of Medicare on “Meet the Press.” “When you’re sick, the doctor gets paid for each service, each prescription, each pill, each test. If you were to tell doctors you get a certain amount of money to treat Jim Smith, who has a certain form of diabetes, say $10,000, every study shows that you’d save hundreds of billions of dollars without cutting benefits to people. That’s what Democrats stand for

  I guess what he was trying to say is that doctors are giving Medicare patients treatments and tests which they do not need in order to make higher profits, and that under his plan this practice would stop and because of this billions of dollars would be saved. He also claims that cutting out these tests would not be cutting benefits to those that might actually need these tests. Personally I must have much more faith in the medical profession than Chuck Shumer must because I believe that these doctors would not needlessly order treatments just to turn a profit. How many of these procedures are  necessary for preventative measures, and do these patients risk their health if these procedures are not done before it is too late?

  Under his plan all patients would be given the same dollar value and once you reach that dollar value you are shit out of luck. Not all patients with the same problems can be expected to react the same way to the same treatments, but that is exactly what will be assumed if Chuck Shumer has his way. How is this beneficial to those that rely on Medicare to give them affordable coverage, and if a patient needs these additional treatments after that patient has reached his of her limit how is this not cutting benefits if the patient will have to chose between paying for the  additional costs or skipping the potentially lifesaving tests?

  Chuck Shumer then went on to blast Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform proposal stating that it would “end Medicare as we know it,” as if his plan wouldn’t do the same. Democrats have even stooped to the level of running the following commercial which depicts Paul Ryan as pushing an old lady in a wheelchair over a cliff because of his Medicare reform proposal.

  While people like Chuck Shumer and the Democrats are trying to claim that Republicans want to “end Medicare as we know it,” they all supported Obamacare, which actually did end Medicare as we know it for the plan will cut Medicare payments by 30% over the next three years, and “redistribute” that money to Medicaid.

  Barack Obama has already done what the Democrats are trying to claim the Republicans want to do, and if Chuck Shumer has his way they will continue to radically overhaul Medicare, all the while claiming it is the Republicans who do not care about the elderly. The American people simply cannot be expected to fall for this duplicity once again, can they?