The current fiscal crisis of Medicaid in Illinois accurately reflects the future rationing and cuts to Medicare and other programs to pay for Obama’s signature legislation - Obamacare, which will effectively control one-sixth of the American economy in the very near future.
The Rockford Register Star’s Special Report on Medicaid in Illinois, “Medicaid: The unkindest cuts” is exactly what is going to happen when Obamacare is fully implemented.
Excerpt:
Thousands of Illinoisans stand to lose health-care services because of more than $1.6 billion in cuts to state programs that serve the poorest residents.
The cuts include the elimination of payments for most adult dental services, the end of the popular Illinois Cares Rx program for senior citizens and disabled Illinoisans, new limits on prescription drugs, reduced eligibility for the Family Care program covering low-income parents, and tighter controls on Medicaid eligibility overall.
“The Illinois Medicaid system was on the brink of collapse, and we needed to identify $2.7 billion in savings to save the system,” said Mike Claffey, spokesman for the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services. “Without solving the Medicaid crisis this spring, the program would have continued to eat into the state’s ability to fund critical state priorities, including education and public-safety officers.”
The SMART Act’s plan to limit the number of prescriptions per Medicaid recipient to four per month, except in cases that receive prior approval from the state, won’t be fully implemented for several months, Parker said. The restrictions are estimated to save $180 million.
The Special Report is like looking at America’s future through a crystal ball, except that we can stop the implementation of over 2000 pages that will control more aspects of our lives than simply healthcare – just follow the series.
There is one good side to this for you SNuss. This fixation with other people’s behinds is treatable under the PPACA as preventative medicine. It could prevent you from ending up in jail and having to register once you are out so that people know you are not anywhere near their kids. Hope that works out for you. Best of luck in the big house.
And you have still been unable to refute the position that I have stated. You continually prove that you have absolutely no concept of what the PPACA really offers or what it really says. All you are capable of is regurgitating the chicken little head lines fed to you by people that know you will not research them but just pass them on like you were handing our their Kool-aid.
So call all the names you want and make all the snarky little jabs at me you want. The fact of the matter is you continually show what an infantile moron you are, and you are dumb enough to do it where everyone sees it. So I am not the only one that gets a good laugh from your mornic statements, everyone who reads them laughs as well. Good luck with that approach to life. SNuff said!
JRM, and his delusions of grandeur, how pathetic!
This explains why ObamaCare needs to be repealed:
http://exposingliberallies.blogspot.com/2012/06/obamacare-bad-for-america.html
What a putz! Gives us a link to 15 headline statements that present no supporting detail of correctness or accuracy. Typical conservative approach. Someday these guys will read and understand the PPACA.
Better yet, here is a detailed listing of what the PPACA will enact and when that will happen. I know you won’t read it, but you can never say that you were not provided with the details. The plans to repeal the PPACA better have funds allocated to terminate what has already been implemented and cause millions to have their insurance cancelled by the insurance companies.
http://dpc.senate.gov/healthreformbill/healthbill65.pdf
JRM, I dont know what planet you live on but here in the real world I pay 1,169 a month for health insurance.
I had to wait till they passed it to find out I was getting the shaft. I am middle class and he dont care about how much I pay for a gallon of gas or my insurance.
btw, thanks for laugh about Romney using his hanky during the debate. priceless
So Sam, when did you get this insurance? How many people are covered under your insurance policy? If you are the only one on the policy, what physical ailments and/or pre-existing conditions did you have when you got the insurance or what ones do you have now? If only you and no pre-existing conditions, why have you not been able to find cheaper insurance. Just before I went on medicare last March, I was paying 780 a month for myself with pre-existing conditions, and it was not an employee insurance program.
As far as the hanky; it could have been. He would have needed it to try to get the taste out of his mouth after all of the meaningless crap he said.
I knew it, JRM, a liberal through and through. Romney’s ideas were much better than the snake oil Obama was selling. Even his talking points didn’t work. Romney denied them and all Obama could do was repeat what he was told to say, since he didn’t have his trusted teleprompter with someone else’s words in it.
Free enterprise, freedom itself from government, worrying about our children’s and grandchildren’s future, a budget after 1000 days, an energy plan to get us off dependence on Muslims who hate our guts, the simple fact that Romney has a different vision of America, understands business and dynamic economy is meaningless crap?
Only a liberal Dem could possibly think what Romney said during the debate was crap! You are simply mad that Sam checked out your link. Romney should have given the hanky to Obama to dry his eyes after such a dismal debate effort. Of course when you don’t have any facts to back up your position, what can be expected?
Ted, please don’t attack Leftists, like JRM. These kool-ade drinking Democrat sheeple are to be pitied, not demeaned, since all they know how to do is parrot Media Matters, the Daily KOS, Alinski’s Rules for Radicals, and other Left-biased propaganda sites. They accuse others of promoting hatred and racism, when it is actually their own stock-in-trade.
It is said that Liberalism is a mental disease, and vitriolic bloggers like them do nothing except confirm the accuracy of that theory. See the following:
WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
“Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded,” says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.” “Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave.”
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to “the vast right-wing conspiracy.”
For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.
Read the rest at: http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/leading-psychiatrist-says-liberalism-is-a-psychological-disorder/
JRM, the cost went up over 2,000 this year and being self employed there is nobody to pay it for me.
So Sam, you did not answer my questions. Is the policy for you alone or is it for your family? Either way, how could it go up $2000 this year and you are still only paying $1169.00. Now you are showing that crazy Romney/Ryan math. It just doesn’t add up.
As for Ted and SNuss, if you guys think that Romney repeated his talking points less than Obama, you have lost the ability to count. If you think that Romney gave clear answers to how his budget plans clearly show how he will pay for the things he says he will do, you need to get into one of those distrrict 205 remedial math classes.
If you think that Romney provided anthing but the same crap he has been saying for the last 6 months (still without any detail) then you need to have you ears checked – and PPACA covers that kind of procedure.
If you think that you can defend your positions by saying that liberals just don’t understand anything and fo nothing but drink the Kool-aid, then you have no idea of what it will take to get this country going again. All you know is the chicken little headlines that are being spoon fed to you by your own party. You are as gulity of biased, non-examined headline stating as any liberal is. You approach, just like theirs, will lead to another 4 years of complete inaction because you have not solved the problem. When the extremes of you party find out what Romney/Ryan plan to do, they will fight it even more than your boogeyman liberals will.
You pig in a poke approach will haunt you for years.
JRM_oxymoron, $1.169 is my monthly premium.
Sam, are you the only person on that policy or is it a family policy? What don’t you understand about that question? Or are you just dodging the question because you cannot support your position with facts? Same approach Romeny/Ryan are taking in telling us what they are going to do – headlines, but no specifics.
JRM seems to forget that Romney is SUPPOSED to state his positions, as opposed to the Leftist minions, who get their marching orders from the likes of George Soros. Of course, that isn’t covered in the Left’s talking points, so that isn’t discussed (by them).
JRM, my point is that under “obama care” my insurance has gone up over $2,000 in one year.
It is a family plan as if that matters. You keep drinkinjg the kool-aid while us grown folks take out the trash.
It is amazing that the extreme right wing complains that the current administration doesn’t provide details of what they are going to do. Yet it is alright that their candidates don’t need to provide any details of what they are going to do.
And Sam, what do you expect, a family plan that costs 250.00 a month? Look at the rise in average family plan insurance premiums since 2000. To blame the rising cost over the last two years on “Obamacare”, which is only about 20% implemented, shows a real lack of understanding.
Year Average Annual Cost
2000 $6,438
2001 $7,061
2002 $8,003
2003 $9,068
2004 $9,950
2005 $10,880
2006 $11,480
2007 $12,106
2008 $12,680
2009 $13,375
Source: Kaiser Family Foundation; Health Research & Educational Trust
Obama is the one that said my cost were going to go down not me.
I expect our president not to be a liar.
JRM wouldn’t believe the truth, if it slapped him in the face……
Obamacare Increases Costs of College Health Plans by as Much as 1,112%
http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/06/05/obamacare-increases-costs-of-college-health-plans-by-as-much-as-1112/
And…
Small Business on Obamacare: No Reason to Hire or Invest
Jim Amos, CEO and chairman of Tasti D-Lite, a frozen yogurt franchise that operates in 14 states as well as globally, is certain of one thing: The ruling will hinder growth in the franchise space. “It’s going to force franchisees to shift workers to part-time to avoid the 50-employee threshold,” he said. “It will keep new owners and new openings on the sideline.”
“This decision will be negative for future employment,” said Marc Schupan, CEO, Schupan & Sons, who provides health insurance of his employees. “We will look at hiring more closely and could increase temps as opposed to full-time personnel.”
That concern, that businesses will not increase the number of employees if it means they will have to take on more health-care costs, is top of mind for many business owners.
“The government is rewarding and encouraging businesses to remain 50 people or less to avoid the total payment of high health insurance premiums,” said David Greenspon, CEO of Competitive Edge in Des Moines, Iowa. Greenspon, which employs 150 people, expects this decision could increase his health-care costs by $500,000. He predicts that it will be less expensive for some business owners to pay the penalties for non-compliance than pay additional fees to insure all employees.
Read the rest at: http://www.cnbc.com/id/48000806/Small_Business_on_Obamacare_No_Reason_to_Hire_or_Invest
I am on a family plan and I pay approximately $330.00 A WEEK for insurance.
I am thinking that paying the fine is the way to go. Then you can only pay when you need it.
I hope it expands to car and life insurance. It would be sweet to get a million dollar life policy after you pass away. It would also be great to only get full coverage after you crash you car.
I mean really, could it be any more fair.