- $308 billion: Cuts to the Medicare Advantage program, where more than one in four Medicare beneficiaries receive their Medicare health benefits (note: the amount includes interactions);
- $294 billion: Payment cuts to hospitals (including DSH);
- $66 billion: Cuts in payments for home health services;
- $39 billion: Reductions in nursing home payments; and
- $17 billion: Cuts to hospice payments to hospice providers.
All told, ObamaCare raids the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (Part A) by $517 billion and Supplementary Medicare Insurance Trust Fund (Part B) by $247 billion over the next 10 years. You may recall that Obama Administration officials have repeatedly warned that ObamaCare’s Medicare cuts are so drastic that seniors’ access to care might be jeopardized. So it’s not surprising that the CBO analysis comes with a sobering reminder that ObamaCare’s Medicare cuts “might be difficult to sustain over a long period of time.”
Rather than use Medicare spending reductions to shore up the Medicare program, which is now expected to go bankrupt by 2024, Democrats chose to use Medicare as its slush fund to fund a massive government takeover of health care. Yet another reason ObamaCare must be repealed.