President Obama's mendacious political promise, "If you like your
health care plan, you can keep it," continues to cast a long and
disturbing shadow of doubt and confusion over millions of Americans who
have lost coverage as a result of Obamacare. As 2014 unfolds, the most
vulnerable senior citizens — those who receive home health care services
— are about to learn they are out of luck. Obamacare opens a trap door under them, leaving
this elderly population in freefall — with many citizens losing access
to home health care.
Add another compelling reason to reverse
Obamacare. Whether by accident or intention, the "Affordable Care Act"
empirically strips America's oldest and poorest cohort, all part of the
World War II generation, of this basic coverage. Here is how.
On Jan. 1, Medicare's home health care services, formerly serving 3.5 million elderly beneficiaries across the country,
were cut under Obamacare. The cut deleted exactly 14 percent, or an
estimated $22 billion, from these lowest-income Americans over four
years. News of the forthcoming cut only trickled out the Friday before
Thanksgiving, yet another stunning attempt by the Obama White House to
reduce Medicare benefits without attracting notice.
Guess what? We
noticed. This cut does irreparable damage to recipients of Medicare's
home health care services, those who are aged, homebound and sicker than
the average Medicare population. Indeed, nearly two-thirds of Medicare
home health care users live at or below the federal poverty level,
meaning they are the most economically compromised of America's precious
senior citizens.
This cut is an indictment of White House
policies. Home health care agencies have always provided services to
homebound Medicare beneficiaries. No hoopla, but when these Americans
needed skilled care, they got it. In contrast to expensive hospital
care, critical health care services got into millions of American homes
via clinicians. Home health care was — and still is — vital. It is also
now effectively gone for these Americans.
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