HealthCare Notes

4/5/13

Fox News Resurrects Death Panels: ‘This Is About People Dying As A Result Of Obamacare’

Fox News Resurrects Death Panels: ‘This Is About People Dying As A Result Of Obamacare’:Johnson’s conflation of the sequester’s ham-fisted spending cuts with Obamacare’s Medicare savings demonstrates a complete misunderstanding of the sequester, Obamacare, and how federal budgeting works. Sequestration is causing cancer clinics to turn people away because they can’t afford to keep providing expensive chemotherapy drugs to patients in the face of a two percent cut to Medicare Part Bthat has to come entirely out of clinics’ overhead funding — making the sequester cut more akin to a double-digit pay cut.