On Thursday, Senate conservatives blocked a bill that would have averted a 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. The bill, which would have canceled a reduction in Medicare fees and increased doctor pay by 1.1 percent, passed the House last week 355-59. But the Senate failed to invoke cloture on the bill by only one vote.
I'll have to get a little wonky to explain, so bear with me. Buried deep in the bureaucratic bowels of this government's budget process is a formula that triggers automatic cuts in Medicare payments to doctors if spending in other categories goes over certain limits. It's kinda like the legislated limit on the amount of national debt, in that no one has ever taken it seriously. These Medicare cuts in doctor payments have always been restored in what is usually one of the most boring pieces of action on Capitol Hill. After all, who would be stupid enough to actually cut payments to doctors?
Thirty-nine Republicans, that's who. Ignore Harry Reid if you click on the link. Due to fucked-up Senate rules, he had to vote against the measure in order to be able to bring it up later. Which means it might get fixed Doc, but it might not. There is a real chance that you could be looking at a 10% cut in your Medicare pay. And the pay you get from every other insurance company that bases their reimbursement rate on Medicare.
Ha ha.
I gotta admit part of me loves watching the karma-go-around smack you right in the face. It's kinda funny to think how you enlisted Ronald Reagan to carry the water of the American Medical Association back in the day, secure in the knowledge you were the elite of society and therefore exempt from having to worry about things like how we could be a decent civilization. Now Reagan's political spawn are coming after you.
I repeat. Ha ha.
In California, they're coming after me as well, because this state thought it would be a hoot to put an actor in charge of things. See a pattern?
So welcome to the Republican shaft-up-the-ass club doctors and California pharmacists. Perhaps, if you win this legislative battle, you might be convinced to give a crap in the future about what is fair for people other than yourself?
Because you've seen what happens when you let them get away with fucking those at the bottom. It's only a matter of time before they decide they want higher-class bitches.
Wake..........up.
