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Now that the nation's hospitals have offered to give up $155 billion in future Medicare and Medicaid payments and America’s largest private health care insurers say they'll give back as much as $2 trillion by reducing the growth rate of health care spending by 1.5% per year during the next decade, all to help defray the cost of President Barack Obama's health care plan, I've decided the least I can do as an average citizen is not to opt for expensive elective surgery during the same period.
Posted by:
jeannot
09-Jul-2009 10:36
Source:
impracticalproposals.blogspot.com
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Category:
Healthcare

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I don't understand his joke. I do get the idea of giving up things you weren't goting to do anyway. That's not my problem. The problem is hospitals make money on elective procedures. They use that profit to reduce the amount they have to charge for the life saving procedures. This guy is basically threatening NOT to help hospitals, as opposed to threatening to hurt them.
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