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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89921 04-24-2012 01:33 AM

OBAMA USING $8.3 BILLION IN TAXPAYER MONEY (MEDICARE) AS HIS POLITICAL SLUSH FUND

Call it President Obama’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department.

Only this isn’t some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term. A massive amount of it, too — $8.3 billion. Yes, that’s billion, with a B.

Here is how it works.

The most oppressive aspects of the ObamaCare law don’t kick in until after the 2012 election, when the president will no longer be answerable to voters. More “flexibility,” he recently explained to the Russians.
Postponing the pain: The administration is temporarily restoring funds to Medicare Advantage so seniors don’t lose coverage before the election.
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Postponing the pain: The administration is temporarily restoring funds to Medicare Advantage so seniors don’t lose coverage before the election.

But certain voters would surely notice one highly painful part of the law before then — namely, the way it guts the popular Medicare Advantage program.

For years, 12 million seniors have relied on these policies, a more market-oriented alternative to traditional Medicare, without the aggravating gaps in coverage.

But as part of its hundreds of billions in Medicare cuts, the Obama one-size-fits-all plan slashes reimbursement rates for Medicare Advantage starting next year — herding many seniors back into the government-run program.

Under federal “open-enrollment” guidelines, seniors must pick their Medicare coverage program for next year by the end of this year — which means they should be finding out before Election Day.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/ope...LJY7JzXEIJ

**silversides**

Medicare did need to be reformed, I do not think this is the correct reform though. Hopefully some of the problems can be improved....

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 92204 04-24-2012 03:24 AM

are you saying he uses medicare funds to subsidize medicare?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66934 04-24-2012 03:48 AM

Jesus, there would be plenty of Medicare money if the politicians and their corporate buddies would keep their criminal hands out of it. They all think it's their own slush fund, and in all actuality it is. They all dip into it, steal from it.

Some crooked judge slaps their hands and fines them 1% of what they stole. What a great way to make money.

Not to mention how people like Chelsea Clinton open these "non-profit" clinics for undocumented immigrants and give them free healthcare on you and I - of course, it comes from the Medicare Slush Fund, so your American granny won't be able to get her meds anymore now.

It's why Rockyfeller is having a holy shit fit that we don't want to kill our grannies. Every penny counts for the evil ones, cause their greed knows no boundaries.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 66934 04-24-2012 03:53 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

OBAMA USING $8.3 BILLION IN TAXPAYER MONEY (MEDICARE) AS HIS POLITICAL SLUSH FUND

Call it President Obama’s Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department.

Only this isn’t some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term. A massive amount of it, too — $8.3 billion. Yes, that’s billion, with a B.

Here is how it works.

The most oppressive aspects of the ObamaCare law don’t kick in until after the 2012 election, when the president will no longer be answerable to voters. More “flexibility,” he recently explained to the Russians.
Postponing the pain: The administration is temporarily restoring funds to Medicare Advantage so seniors don’t lose coverage before the election.
Getty
Postponing the pain: The administration is temporarily restoring funds to Medicare Advantage so seniors don’t lose coverage before the election.

But certain voters would surely notice one highly painful part of the law before then — namely, the way it guts the popular Medicare Advantage program.

For years, 12 million seniors have relied on these policies, a more market-oriented alternative to traditional Medicare, without the aggravating gaps in coverage.

But as part of its hundreds of billions in Medicare cuts, the Obama one-size-fits-all plan slashes reimbursement rates for Medicare Advantage starting next year — herding many seniors back into the government-run program.

Under federal “open-enrollment” guidelines, seniors must pick their Medicare coverage program for next year by the end of this year — which means they should be finding out before Election Day.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/ope...LJY7JzXEIJ

If that sentence was from the post article, than I think I found a blooper!
It looks like someone at the post must already have the early selection results and the winner! And we thought we voted for President.