Page 2 - Provider Groups News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Time is their enemy. they have two fundmental problems. first is you have essentially every possible interest in the medical community opposed to the bill. groups that don't usually agree. you have the heart, lung, cancer, march of dimes, the provider groups, doctor, pediatricians, insurance industry saying the ted cruz amendment is not workable. you have seniors, all of them, the medicaid directors, most appointed by republican governors oppose the bill. there's no institutional support. what people are hearing tends to be opposition. the second, to me, bigger problem, we talked about this be...

Going to be victorious. it's got to be the american people that are victorious and we need to take the party politics out of it. we need to protect everybody, you know, that's getting sick. we need to have premiums that are not, you know, rising and doubling and since 2013, to 2017, premiums under obamacare have done nothing but double. >> i want to quickly play a little bit more from vaughn's interview with democratic senator chris van holen who is holding a town hall this afternoon. watch this. >> how can you say this is a health care bill when not a single, not one patient advocacy organiza...

>> are you democrats in that case preparing some sort of rapid response team to react to this? what's your plan once it's unveiled today? >> yes, we are all in. our big job as i just indicated, is to actually make clear what this means for people's lives. for example, tomorrow a number of democratic senators are going to have a day of action in their home states. we're going to do it on the floor of the united states senate. we're talking to provider groups, particularly those in places like rural america. the house bill, we'll have to see what the senate does -- has something called an age ta...

The people that are part of the medicaid expansion be affected in my state. that is one big concern i have. second concern i have are for the people who are currently on the exchanges and being subsidized. the new bill provides for tax credits. advanceable and refundable. i support the tax credit approach. the question will be are they sufficiently funded in order to help individuals continue to purchase insurance compared to what they're currently receiving on the subsidies. those questions have not been answered to my satisfaction. i was going to say, finally too, on a bill like this i think...

Cuts to providers and insurance companies and will have no effect on benefits or services to the beneficiaries. let me ask my question. medicare's own actuary, medicare, not of the romney campaign says that is impossible that you can't have the same services for $716 billion less. and let's put up what the medicare actuary says. they say that is 15% of medicare providers will be unprofitable by 2019. 25% of medicare providers will be unprofitable by 2030 and the medicare actuary concludes this is his quote in practice medicare providers could not sustain continuing negative margins and absent ...