Senate Doctors Dissect CMS’s “Medicare and You”
In a parody playing on the Medicare handbook that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) publishes each year that gives seniors information about changes to the program, U.S. Senators and doctors Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and John Barrasso, M.D. (R-WY) released their own “Medicare and You 2012” handbook that provides a doctors’ perspective about the real challenges facing the Medicare program under President Obama’s health care law.
I like it.
I like it too.
In spite of the Senate’s failure to do much of anything this year, I’m glad to see their sense of satire is still intact.
Sen. Coburn is always on the mark with his comments or policies.
The trouble is: many seniors believe it when the Administration tells them Medicare benefits were not cut for seniors. When doctors and hospitals have payments cuts; when insurers have payment cuts for Medicare Advantage plans, benefit losses will ultimately trickle down to seniors.
Concise and honest.
Barrasso and Coburn are going to need to come out with a new edition of that handbook every two years to keep up with the amount and magnitude of problems and challenges facing Medicare down the road.