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Resolve around making sure doctors get paid less and less reimbursements for every visit. doctors right now dont want to see medicare patients because payments are being ratcheted down. most doctors dont take medicare patients. the real cuts that will happen is to medicare advantage, a program that about 23% of seniors belong to. its a supplement to medicare, privately managed. it involves wellness programs, gym membership, a whole range of things that arent part of traditional medicare. the oba...

>> i represent the nfib, sole proprietorrors who dont think they need health care. and if they did, it would be of a catastrophic nature, not a cadillac plan that the governments forcing on them, including wellness programs and contraceptives so they decided they would rather pay out of pocket, than pay $7- to $20,000 in insurance premiums. the government will only spend $500 for helt care is making them spend $20,000 for insurance. they dont think the government can force to you buy a product a...

Did years ago. what can the average person do to increase his or her physical activity and overall health while at work? >> okay. one of the things that probably most people have heard is taking elevators, taking stairs instead of elevators, trying to park far away from where your entrance is to your job, so you get the actual activity of walking from your car to the building, maybe taking breaks during the day that will allow you to get out of your seat and move around, talking to your colleagu...

Will make very few changes. they worry about losing their grandfather status when wholesale changes are required. many of them plan to offer more consumer-directed programs like high deductables or the tax-free health savings accounts. 20% will include that in 2011. wellness programs, smoking cessation, weight loss, programs that give the enrollees more responsibility for spending their healthcare dollars. >> shepard: i guess in part because of who is putting the study out and who they represent...

Secondly, putting $7 billion into this over the next five years and then $ 2 billion a year thereafter to feed programs and get money into the system to create programs with benefits. >> new territory. something has hasnt been done. how is the government going to actually decide which plans are working? which initiative, working and which arent? >> a great question. theyve decided through the legislation to create a task force, if you will, to look at what works and what doesnt. theres a lot of ...

Has made a big deal out of wellness programs. if people are in wellness programs, they can get a discount on premiums it the guns rights lobby, they were concerned if somebody owned a gun they would not get that premium because that would be considered a health risk. the senate majority leader democrat from nevada who is a guns righted advocate heard fr his fellow supporters they were concerned. so he wrote explicitly into this law that gun owners are protected and that would not be seen as a he...

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>> i represent the nfib, sole proprietorrors who dont think they need health care. and if they did, it would be of a catastrophic nature, not a cadillac plan that the governments forcing on them, including wellness programs and contraceptives so they decided they would rather pay out of pocket, than pay $7- to $20,000 in insurance premiums. the government will only spend $500 for helt care is making them spend $20,000 for insurance. they dont think the government can force to you buy a product a...

Starve doctors under the guise of wellness programs. defenders say ifab represents a novel approach to a problem thats festered for decades. >> so lets assume that this ipab is up and running and they make recommendations that the president himself supports. if congress wants to do something differently, they have to reject the ipab recommendations, pass new law and the president has to sign them. so thats a pretty big hurdle. >> congress has the opportunity to reject those proposals. and i thin...