Give Us Liberty

House Energy & Commerce Health
Subcommittee reveals that Obamacare
has taken $300 billion from Medicare
Advantage...after taking $700 billion
from the Medicare piggybank.
The House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton revealed on Dec. 4, 2013 that the Obama Administration has, once again, helped itself to money designated by the House of Representatives for Medicare, not Obamacare. If you remember, when Obamacare was signed into law, Obama helped himself to a fistful of money—$700 billion—bringing the total heist thus far to $1 trillion According to subcommittee vice vice-Chairman Michael Burgess [R-TX], the cuts from Medicare Advantage will "begin to be fully realized next year." The subcommittee noted "...there was a promise made to seniors [by Obama]. The promise was that [Obama's DHHS was] going to use your Medicare dollars as a piggy bank to fund the Affordable Care Act and, in doing so," the administration said, "we'll improve Medicare and allow seniors to keep their doctors if they liked.".

Does that sound familiar? More important, does it sound believable? Expectations of existing Medicare patients seeing Medicare improve is somewhere between "nil," "nada," "zilch," and "nothing." American Action Forum president Doug Holtz-Eakin added, "Those most hurt by the cuts are low-income seniors in rural areas without other options for supplemental Medicare coverage. Additional scheduled cuts in the future will broaden the damage to Medicare Advantage. Twenty-eight percent of all Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in Medicare Advantage in 2013."

Clearly, when the dust settles, Barack Obama is going to make sure there is only one healthcare system in the United States—and it will be a single-payer system. Will Congress enact this new single payer system? No. It will simply evolve through the unelected fourth branch of government that actually writes the 20 to 30 thousand pages of regulations after Congressmen and Senators vote "aye" or "nay" on the 200 to 2,000 page shells of laws which someone other than them (the special interest groups that financially benefit from them) actually crafted. Wake up, America. The clock is ticking. We are scant minutes away from losing liberty forever. When we find ourselves shackled to the factory wall in a Stalin-type communist gulag called America, don't shake your head and ask how it happened. Just look around—now! - Jon Christian Ryter