reimbursement. but they don t because medicare has such low reimbursement, they see way too many people to be able to afford to see the patients. what we sewel see is that going on down. you have a medicare plan, but if you can t get a doctor, do you have health care? that s happening across the country, the people who are turning 65 this year, becoming medicare eligible, half of them are having trouble finding a physician. even under the cut, if you find a doctor, under medicare nlight of the economic pressure we are putting on the doctors, they have to push you through quickly, so you don t get your questions worried and so i am not sure the level of care, especially if you get older and have health problem, the qualityee going to go down. as a consequence of that, when the doctor doesn t spend the appropriate time with you, what do they do? they order a bunch more tests to cover what they didn t get to ask you about, so that they make sure they are not missing anything.
we increase all of this testing that is really unnecessary because we won t reimburse and recognize the value of a physician, relating to a patient and paying them for the time that they will spend with the patient. and the president uses the word coverage and care interchangeably, but they are very different. there may be a time coming very shortly where someone with a medicare card can t get care. what would the president say if he were standing here and listening to you? i assume he would say you are dead wrong. he would disagree. he would disagree. he would say, we had to do something. we have a problem. we all agree. one out of $3 in health care doesn t help anybody get well or prevent them from getting sick. that s a problem. why is is it there? the the government controls 65% and has mandated down price control where have you disrupted the market. i use the example, i cared for 300 omish ma am families. they were the best purchasers in the world they wanted to know
reimbursement. but they don t because medicare has such low reimbursement, they see way too many people to be able to afford to see the patients. what we sewel see is that going on down. you have a medicare plan, but if you can t get a doctor, do you have health care? that s happening across the country, the people who are turning 65 this year, becoming medicare eligible, half of them are having trouble finding a physician. even under the cut, if you find a doctor, under medicare nlight of the economic pressure we are putting on the doctors, they have to push you through quickly, so you don t get your questions worried and so i am not sure the level of care, especially if you get older and have health problem, the qualityee going to go down. as a consequence of that, when the doctor doesn t spend the appropriate time with you, what do they do? they order a bunch more tests to cover what they didn t get to ask you about, so that they make sure they are not missing anything.
handbook. senators, i should say, doctors, nice to see both of you. nice to see you. the government has a new 2012 book out. you guys have a competing medicare 2012. this is your book, is this a parody? you might consider it. it s much more truthful than the other one. in what way. ? terms of describing what the obamacare legislation has done to medicare patients. how they took $500 bill whereon away from seniors on medicare, to object save and strengthen medicare, but to start a government program for other people and they will have unelected bureaucrats deciding who gets what care and who pays for it. when you go item by item why medicare is more at risk now in terms of going bankrupt, than it was before obamacare passed. so if i am clear, we were on an unsustainable path before obamacare s national health care. he he shepherded through the national health care and we are
still in the unsustainable path. but you say $530 billion was taken out of medicare. where what was it taken from? where did it go? it s going to go for a innovation council, $10 billion. it will go to subsidize the state exchanges, mandated care that all of us will have to buy if we don t can t demonstrate that we haven t. so there is a subsidy. so we are taking money that people have paid into medicare, taking it out and subsidizing the care for people who have not paid into medicare. tell come out of home health care, hospice, hospital care, doctor care, physical therapy care, care for seniors, care that they need. it will be denying care and refusing care. is it fair to say in your opinion, it s out of services and more into administration? or bureaucracy is that a fair description? that s part of it. but the vast majority is going