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Originally Posted by Thepaindispenser
Wrong Riot, it basically takes about $720 billion dollars from Medicare in payments that went to Doctors and testing and shifts it to Medicaid.
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No, not all Medicaid, mostly Medicare.
Yes, it does that (sort of, you're not exactly right),
too not taking any benefits from seniors (Romney-Ryan are liars) and providers
agreed to that as the number of insured rise and they will gain markedly in new patients. That money goes to seniors, closing the Rx drug benefit donut hole is a benefit (about $600 per year) many seniors have already felt from that provision in the ACA.
But it also does what I listed. The Medicare changes are only a small part of the financing, not the major part of what the ACA does and achieves.
Again: it does not solve them completely, of course, but the ACA absolutely addresses and improves - in addition to the the Medicare improvement you mentioned:
Cost control
Premium price control
Medication costs
Health care improvements by access improvement
Funding of CDC and scientific initiatives
Massive cutting of fraud and waste in Medicare/Medicaid
Funding for private practitioners (increased numbers)
Changing payments to doctors for better outcomes, not more testing.
Coordination between health care teams.
Medical records improvements.
And on and on. You can click on healthcare.gov to read and educate yourself.
You are so factually ill-informed on this it's astounding in this age of the internet. Surely it must be deliberate?