New house budget repeals Obamacare, partially privatizes Medicare

by Robert Lowes (Medscape)

Following a familiar script, House Republicans today introduced a budget bill for fiscal 2016 that would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), partially privatize Medicare, turn Medicaid into a block-grant program for states, and produce a $13 billion budget surplus in 2024.

The script dates back to 2011, when the House Budget Committee, then chaired by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), first proposed this package of measures. Even if the House and Senate, both controlled by the GOP, were to approve them, President Barack Obama would likely use his veto pen.

Under the plan released today by the House Budget Committee, Medicare would shift to a "premium support" model beginning in 2024 for new enrollees — in other words, Americans born in 1959 and thereafter. Seniors would choose between traditional Medicare or a private health plan, with the

More ObamaCare reports to drop drugs, close hospitals, spread the pain

(Video) Here’s another person for Democrats to insult as a meaningless “anecdote”: Chris Dunn of Sonora, California, who lost his old insurance due to Barack Obama’s Big Lie, got saddled with an overpriced and inferior ObamaCare plan, and can’t get the back surgery he desperately needs.  ”Doc shock” for the win!

ObamaCare was falsely billed as the cure for such “cost shifting,” when in reality it’s increasing the burden on emergency rooms.  Forcing the Affordable Care Act through Congress required states to be given the option of rejecting the Medicaid expansion that would theoretically have replaced these emergency room visits with a certified welfare plan.  Now we've got the worst of both worlds.  ObamaCare is such a disaster that ...Continue >>>