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Doctor pay cuts bad for patients |
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Written by Ed Goldman
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
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Published in The Cranbury Press
To the editor:
As of Jan. 1, your doctor will automatically receive 5 percent less for Medicare-related work.
I am mad and more important, my doctor is furious. My doctor feels that this 5 percent reduction is unfair and is the first of other 5 percent reductions during the new year. There is more to come.
How does this affect seniors? Very simple.
Doctors have bills and a life and are entitled to get paid. They will no option but to stop seeing Medicare patients. It is already starting to happen.
As planned by President Bush, Medicare will come to an end and the seniors will have to go to the higher-priced insurance companies. That means more money out of the senior's pocket.
The senior can stop this threat in its tracks: vote.
It is common knowledge that the Republican Senate and Congress are in control of all the votes. They are a bloc and vote the way the president wants.
Break up this monopoly: vote.
I urge that we seniors remove the threat of losing Medicare and, yes, Social Security. Vote for Democratic candidates to bring some sense and reason to our government and guarantee that Medicare will continue to work for all of us. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 August 2007 )
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