2012 Presidential Election (free for all edition)

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by Slingin Sammy 33

Certainly Obama's Deputy Campaign Manager is shooting straight. LOLOLOL.

This video is complete crap and nothing more than scare tactics targeted at seniors.
- CBO has said the Medicare Trust Fund will be bankrupt by 2020....if nothing's done. Pull $ 716B out of Medicare as Obama wants you'll be looking at 2016 for an insolvent date.
- a vote to support Obama and pull money from Medicare to accelarate ObamaCare is a vote for rationing of health care for seniors.
- The Obama campaign is in usual full-on lie/distortion mode here as the Romney/Ryan plan doesn't make any changes for folks over 55.

Here's some facts from a Congressman who was a doctor:
Why ObamaCare is bad medicine for seniors - The Hill's Congress Blog

From the link: ObamaCare included another provision that could result in a European style of rationing of care based on age or severity of health problems. This 15-member bureaucratic panel appointed by the president, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), is intended to control future Medicare spending. If Medicare grows beyond its yearly target, then IPAB will make a recommendation of cuts..... cuts to Medicare will be all but guaranteed. With the previously mentioned cuts to Medicare, the only real option left is to begin rationing care to seniors by controlling the way physicians practice medicine. There is no reason to have unelected bureaucrats invading the doctor-patient relationship and manipulating medical decisions based on costs.

One ironic result of IPAB is the strong bipartisan support for its repeal. Several House Democrats were opposed to the formation of this board. Dr. Phil Roe of Tennessee, a fellow physician, introduced a bill to repeal IPAB, which has received the support of 221 members, including Barney Frank and 14 other Democratic Members of Congress.

Simple question. Ideology aside,was there anything factually incorrect in what she said? Yes or no