I don't believe you. Medicare is bankrupt!!!!!! Every senior knows that. And they know the only way democrats can deliver their payments is through worthless dollars. They all know this! What difference does it make if you still get your medicare paid in monopoly money!!!! Think AK think!
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Ah, I see. You've extrapolated the entire GOP because your "Friend" told you that his "grandparents", who he claimed to be hardcore republicans, are supposedly voting Obama.
Every senior knows that now they can see a doctor under medicare and they want to keep it that way.They aren't thinking about the next 50 years,they are thinking about the next 4.Think mavrick think !!!
That was just an example A bigger picture would be Obama having 5 and 6 point leads on Romney and 17 and 18 point leads on newt
You are not listening. More and more doctors TODAY are NOT seeing medicare patients. They want to have nothing to do with them. Also, more and more seniors now have to pay for supplemental care or what is known as Medicare Complete because medicare is BROKE and is not paying for everything. The Democrats have NO solution for this except to completely bankrupt the system. Yeah, sign me up for that program Barry.
âWell over 90 percent of doctors, in all kinds of specialties, still take new Medicare patients.â http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/found-doctors-who-take-medicare/ Found: Doctors Who Take Medicare July 6, 2011, 11:58 am A few years back, a spate of news reports and medical journal articles reporting that doctors were refusing to accept Medicare patients caught the attention of Dr. Tara Bishop, an internist and assistant professor of public health at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. The articles, including one in The New York Times, blamed low reimbursement rates and burdensome paperwork requirements. She wondered if it was true. Were significant numbers of doctors bailing out of Medicare, the nationâs largest health insurer? Dr. Bishop and two colleagues tried to answer the question by analyzing data from a National Center for Health Statistics survey of 4,112 physicians practicing in private, nonhospital offices and accepting new patients from 2005 to 2008. Theyâve just published their findings in the Archives of Internal Medicine. âThere was a small decline in Medicare acceptance, but it wasnât very dramatic,â Dr. Bishop told me in an interview. âWell over 90 percent of doctors, in all kinds of specialties, still take new Medicare patients.â The numbers: 95.5 percent of physicians said they accepted new Medicare patients in 2005, a proportion that fell to 92.9 percent in 2008. The declines were actually greater for patients with traditional fee-for-service health insurance (from about 97 percent acceptance to just under 90 percent) and, not surprisingly, for Medicaid patients. Medicaid has always reimbursed at lower rates, and by 2008 only two-thirds of doctors would take on new Medicaid patients. But for Medicare, difficulties in finding a doctor may have been exaggerated. In March, the annual report to Congress by the independent Medicare Payment Advisory Commission reached similar conclusions, based on patient surveys, though it noted that a small proportion have trouble when they seek a new primary care physician. Medicare beneficiaries, the commission reported, have fewer access complaints than 50- to 64-year-olds with private insurance. Dr. Bishop acknowledged that access problems might be greater in certain geographic areas and that doctors might accept Medicare patients only in limited numbers. But I expect many of you feel the obstacles are still greater. If youâve had trouble finding a doctor to accept Medicare, for yourself or for an older relative, Iâd like to hear about your experience in the comments section. When Dr. Bishop and her colleagues look at subsequent surveys â it takes about two years for the N.C.H.S. to publish data, so the 2009 results just emerged â theyâll try for a more detailed picture. âWeâre hoping to look at more specific regions and pockets to see if there are places where itâs more of a problem,â she said.
Again, no it isn't. That's just your interpretation of the polls without looking at the bigger picture. Once it becomes a two man race, we shall see if the polls reflect the same or whether they begin to tell a different story. At that point, it may just become Obama vs. ABO.