Is Obama planning on cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits?

"Without offering any details, the White House budget director said that President Obama would soon unveil plans to reduce long-term deficits tied to soaring costs of Medicare, Social Security and other entitlement programs. "nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/economy/... the mythical death panels off the table? Asked by FuzzyGold 28 months ago Similar questions: Obama planning cutting Social Security Medicare benefits Society > People.

Similar questions: Obama planning cutting Social Security Medicare benefits.

Try again There are two ways of reducing deficits. You can either reduce benefits. Or you can reduce costs.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that Medicare costs can be cut by 30% just by tightening up on lax procedures. These are rampant. You can just watch TV and see ads for "The Scooter Store" that guarantees you a $5000 scoooter "paid for by Medicare".

And lots of ads for stuff delivered to your door free of charge, "Medicare pays all". Just by my personal experience I see huge amounts of waste related to my family’s medical care. So, no, we don’t need any death panels, just common sense on spending..

He knows he'd be impeached if he tried that. So, no, he won't be changing that any time soon. First, he would need to be rid of the folks who draw down benefits from those programs.

I can't think how he'll do that . ..

In a speech to AARP"Obama repeatedly insisted his plan would improve the value of spending on Medicare, so that the quality of coverage would remain the same while the cost would go down. Insurance companies also would no longer be able to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions:"Nobody is talking about trying to change Medicare benefits...what we do want is to eliminate some of the waste that is being paid for out of the Medicare trust fund. "He cited $177 billion of government subsidies paid to insurance companies participating in Medicare Advantage, an enhanced Medicare benefits program.

Making health insurers compete to participate in Medicare Advantage, rather than paying them do so, is one way to cut costs and improve benefits, the president said. "If you've got health care, the only thing we're going to do is we're going to reform the insurance companies so that they can't cheat you," he said. "http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/Reality Check: Real facts about health care reform from WhiteHouse.

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From "The Top Five Healthcare lies"Health care reform plans will not reduce Medicare benefits. Reform includes savings from Medicare that are unrelated to patient care. The savings comes from cutting billions of dollars in overpayments to insurance companies and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.In a speech to AARP"Obama repeatedly insisted his plan would improve the value of spending on Medicare, so that the quality of coverage would remain the same while the cost would go down.

Insurance companies also would no longer be able to deny coverage for pre-existing conditions:"Nobody is talking about trying to change Medicare benefits...what we do want is to eliminate some of the waste that is being paid for out of the Medicare trust fund. "He cited $177 billion of government subsidies paid to insurance companies participating in Medicare Advantage, an enhanced Medicare benefits program. Making health insurers compete to participate in Medicare Advantage, rather than paying them do so, is one way to cut costs and improve benefits, the president said.

"If you've got health care, the only thing we're going to do is we're going to reform the insurance companies so that they can't cheat you," he said. "http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/Reality Check: Real facts about health care reform from WhiteHouse. Govhttp://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck.

Goodbye! Said: 3 Yes, and the mythical unicorns are off the table, too. Now can someone explain to me how something that is a "MYTH" - was ever ON the table?!?

Oh, that's right, it's so much more fun to talk about stuff that isn't real. We can all pretend we're kids around a campfire, telling scary stories! .

Yes, and the mythical unicorns are off the table, too. Now can someone explain to me how something that is a "MYTH" - was ever ON the table?!? Oh, that's right, it's so much more fun to talk about stuff that isn't real.

We can all pretend we're kids around a campfire, telling scary stories!

TurboB replied to post #3: 4 I wish we would have had those unicorns when we were following the pied piper off the cliff. Would have made that last step a lot easier.

I wish we would have had those unicorns when we were following the pied piper off the cliff. Would have made that last step a lot easier.

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My grandDad is in a nursing home, he has both Medicade and Medicare they also take his 700$ social security check so...

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