Sen. Harry Reid has some explaining to do. According to the Nevada News Bureau, Reid has clearly contradicted himself concerning the amount of Medicare payments doctors will receive under the Senate Health Care Hijacking bill.
Reid told a group that the Senate hijacking contained no cuts for Medicare payments to doctors:
Q: Isn’t it true that if the doctor’s fix for Medicare reimbursements for doctors is taken out of the bill that all of the budget savings would disappear? And that there’s already pending legislation to do that – to reverse that?
Senator Reid: No, because we pay for that. It’s going to be something we’re paying for.
Q: But it’s included in the bill, and that’s part of the CBO scoring for that savings.
Reid: Our bill has nothing in it for the doctors.
Q: It doesn’t reduce, the twenty, the reimbursements to Medicare doctors by 21%?
Reid: Anything we do for the doctors is going to be paid for. We disagree with the House.
Q: Okay. But it does not reduce the Medicare reimbursements to doctors, your bill?
Reid: No. Nothing, there’s nothing, there’s not. And the doctors endorsed our bill because they know we’re going to do something to take care of them. The AMA endorsed our bill.
But the manager’s amendment to the bill that Reid himself filed before Christmas does exactly that:
The original Senate health care bill did contain a provision (Section 3101, p. 783) that would have replaced the 21% cut to reimbursements to doctors in 2010 with a 0.5% increase in Medicare’s physician reimbursements that year. It then provided for even greater cuts in 2011. But the manager’s amendment that was added to the bill by Senator Reid the week before Christmas repealed that provision and restored the original cuts for 2010 (Sec 10310, p. 2191).
So does Reid not remember filing that amendment, or is he just outright lying? Be careful if you ask him in person. I don’t want anyone getting knocked to the ground.
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He’s a liar, plain and simple. Just like all those other DemoRats. They all lie so much they wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up and introduced itself.
Madalyn
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