House conservatives reach out for fiscal sanity
It's a better and brighter day in Congress today, as the Republican Study Committee takes aim at fiscal sanity by putting together an alternative budget proposal for FY '06-07.
In this proposal, the RSC seeks to cut 650 Billion over five years. Part of this would be done by slashing Medicare and Medicade, as well as cutting back funding for the Energy, Commerce, and Education Departments.
On it's face, this looks like a good proposal, however I have one concern with it - Medicare. If funding is slashed by 350 Billion over 5 years, that being 70 Billion a year, what will that do to the 7,000 or so Medicare service providers that specialize in Medicare home health - a alternative to keeping patients in the hospital and spending $2500 a day doing so. Instead, patients are cared for in their own homes, by trained professionals, at a fraction of that $2500 price tag. The organizations that specialize in this kind of care (those associated with hospitals and those not) get their funding to care for people from the government and across the board, such an industry sees being cost effective as an excellent way to save government funds insteaad of having the rug pullled out from under them and making them do the same care at the same level of excellence, with less. It sounds a lot like the Israelites having to deliver the same quota of bricks under Pharoah without having easy access to the straw.
The people who administer the care to those that need it, they have names, faces, famlies, and lives - just as those that need Medicare do. Consider their provisions before making decisions.
h/t: Captain's Quarters
In this proposal, the RSC seeks to cut 650 Billion over five years. Part of this would be done by slashing Medicare and Medicade, as well as cutting back funding for the Energy, Commerce, and Education Departments.
On it's face, this looks like a good proposal, however I have one concern with it - Medicare. If funding is slashed by 350 Billion over 5 years, that being 70 Billion a year, what will that do to the 7,000 or so Medicare service providers that specialize in Medicare home health - a alternative to keeping patients in the hospital and spending $2500 a day doing so. Instead, patients are cared for in their own homes, by trained professionals, at a fraction of that $2500 price tag. The organizations that specialize in this kind of care (those associated with hospitals and those not) get their funding to care for people from the government and across the board, such an industry sees being cost effective as an excellent way to save government funds insteaad of having the rug pullled out from under them and making them do the same care at the same level of excellence, with less. It sounds a lot like the Israelites having to deliver the same quota of bricks under Pharoah without having easy access to the straw.
The people who administer the care to those that need it, they have names, faces, famlies, and lives - just as those that need Medicare do. Consider their provisions before making decisions.
h/t: Captain's Quarters
posted by A. R. Welty at 10:11 AM
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