Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

[Along Came Jones]

OH hell, beats looking like this.................

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or this............

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According to BMI standards almost 70% of Americans may qualify as obese. CBS

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

According to BMI standards almost 70% of Americans may qualify as obese. CBS

That I don't doubt. But perhaps you missed my point in my rebuttal to Ahlevah.

 

[Along Came Jones]

I don't, your own post does

Does not.

What is worse is you're making this into a kindergarten tussle. I said . . . fine. Whatever you choose to imagine.

 

[Greenbeard]

And, as it turns out, the "Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said late Wednesday that it was not pausing all Medicare payments to doctors, after a statement earlier in the day stated it would." That is a relief for all us selfish beneficiaries.

But what will be paused are the extensions for expired or expiring programs listed in the CR. The complete list of those can be read in the CR.

Always a coin flip between incompetence and malice with this administration.

 

[Along Came Jones]

That I don't doubt. But perhaps you missed my point in my rebuttal to Ahlevah.

Sorry. I really didn't. I kinda exploited the opportunity to post something I just caught on ABC News Alive. I shouldn't have but . . .

 

[The AntiDonald]

Sorry to hear that.

Thanks. It's a whole new way of life.

 

[The AntiDonald]

I missed this. I'm also sorry to learn your situation.

I'm one of the very lucky ones who after a year on dialysis recovered sufficiently to stop. Still visit my nephrologist every 4 months. Cost paid by Medicare and Tricare.

Stay well!

Congratulations. I've been praying every day for a situation like yours. It's only been three months, but not much improvement in my Kidneys.

 

[LouC]

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on.​

Bootstraps doctors, bootstraps!

 

[iamwhatiseem]

 

[ncguy]

Does not.

What is worse is you're making this into a kindergarten tussle. I said . . . fine. Whatever you choose to imagine.

Does too. Lol

 

[jmotivator]

Senators, we are now voting on whether we should fund Medicare, can't I get a rollcall of votes, we need 60 to fund payments to providers. How say you?

 

[Greenbeard]

Senators, we are now voting on whether we should fund Medicare, can't I get a rollcall of votes, we need 60 to fund payments to providers. How say you?

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Medicare is a mandatory spending program.

 

[jmotivator]

Medicare is a mandatory spending program.

Then Democrats should vote for the CR without delay!

 

[Greenbeard]

Then Democrats should vote for the CR without delay!

The GOP should vote to avoid taking away middle class families’ health care without delay.

 

[Once More]

God only knows and I don't believe God is telling.

Before the forum reboot there was an interesting discussion concerning methods of bypassing House committee control over introduced funding legislation. One method was via a discharge petition, but the petition requires 281 signatures. That's why swearing in Missouri’s representative is flying so high in the news. Her signature compelling release of the Epstein files would be the 281st

The most interesting and probable (I wish I could remember the poster's name who brought it up) is a move to suspend the rules and pass the bill. The obstacle is that the Speaker controls who is recognized to make the motion.

The point being that in the House there are procedural processes which give the minority Democrats a chance at forcing/nudging majority Republicans to accept compromise. The Senate is a whole different story.

Be that as it may, until the continuing resolution is passed the situation inflicted by both parties' stubbornness will only grow more dire and stressful.

218, not 281.
Arizona’s,not Missouri’s.
I figured the 281 was just a typo and wasn’t going to say anything … until you typed 281st.

 

[jmotivator]

The GOP should vote to avoid taking away middle class families’ health care without delay.

Nope. Everything like that should be addressed in it's own bill after long negotiations. All you are saying is that the Democrats are holding up Medicare payments because they don't want the crisis they created to go to waste.

 

[Greenbeard]

Nope. Everything like that should be addressed in it's own bill after long negotiations. All you are saying is that the Democrats are holding up Medicare payments because they don't want the crisis they created to go to waste.

A shutdown can’t hold up Medicare payments, it’s a mandatory spending program.

 

[Lursa]

By keeping the government shutdown Democratic Senators are fighting on behalf of Americans by inflicting financial and health injury upon Americans? The only saving grace for those guys is that Trump is using their mistake to add to the unemployment lines.

You didnt answer my questions. Please do before asking yours. ALtho it should be obvious Dems and Americans value their ACTUAL health and healthcare more than political hyperbole. You keep going to insulting Democrats...I'm discussing process and legal negotiations.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Thanks. It's a whole new way of life.

Karen is and has been functioning on one kidney since she was born but didn't find out until ten years after she got out of the Navy and, thanks to ionizing radiation exposure while IN the Navy, that one kidney is damaged.
But so far, we've managed to keep it functioning, through half a dozen severe sepsis episodes.
So believe me when I tell you kidneys are near and dear to me.
I've learned how to become "The Piss Whisperer" and I do basic lab work every morning on her output to double check that everything is okay.

We have come right up to the edge of telling her she will be on dialysis five or six times, only to have VA doctors pull a rabbit out of their hat and save that kidney.
I hope and pray you get a new one, and I hope and pray that will be the case if or when it is Karen's turn.

 

[Northern Light]

Well, now there's a new wrinkle. Medicare apparently isn't going to pay doctors for services rendered after September 30 until the shutdown ends--any services, not just ones like telehealth that expired on October 1. Say it ain't so, Dr. Oz.

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

I want to see the full chat transcripts, not quotes out of context which the media does on a regular basis.

 

[Greenbeard]

I want to see the full chat transcripts, not quotes out of context which the media does on a regular basis.

What?

 

[jmotivator]

A shutdown can’t hold up Medicare payments, it’s a mandatory spending program.

... You started this thread to report that the Shutdown is holding up Medicare payments!

 

[Greenbeard]

... You started this thread to report that the Shutdown is holding up Medicare payments!

“The shutdown” did no such thing, the Trump administration did. Or threatened to, they’ve already folded.

 

[Along Came Jones]

218, not 281.
Arizona’s,not Missouri’s.
I figured the 281 was just a typo and wasn’t going to say anything … until you typed 281st.

Thank you for both corrections.

 

[Along Came Jones]

You didnt answer my questions. Please do before asking yours. ALtho it should be obvious Dems and Americans value their ACTUAL health and healthcare more than political hyperbole. You keep going to insulting Democrats...I'm discussing process and legal negotiations.

Is this the question, "So then why should the left give in without getting it?"

If by "the left" you mean Senate Democrats, what they get is a chance that ACA subsidies will be brought up in the House before they expire. Tic tock.