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Assisted Living Facility In-House Doctor: “Obamacare diverts Medicare funds from life-saving procedures to comfort care.” He hinted that federal funds were flooding into assisted living facilities & other places, and away from hospitals & treating physicians, which has since been bore out.
Oregon had massive Medicaid funds, far in excess of those needed to provide medical care to the state’s Medicaid population. Instead of doing the ethical thing and returning the federal money that they did not need, they wasted tax money on cooking classes and dancing lessons.
Obamacare’s short term goal was to slice payments in half for Medicare doctors, discouraging younger doctors from becoming Medicare doctors. The long term goal was as an interim step toward full socialized medicine completely controlled by the federal government.