Betsy McCaughey: Medicare Cuts Could Kill 40,000 Seniors Annually

Dr. Betsy McCaughey, the former lieutenant governor of New York explains that the “skimpy care” that Obama’s health law would impose on Medicare hospital patients “is likely to cause an estimated 40,000 unnecessary deaths each year.” Obama excuses his $716 billion pillage of Medicare funding by pointing out that it only cuts compensation to providers. Duh! So if the provider cannot to afford to hire sufficient staff do not expect adequate care. While seniors are seeing funding to Medicare cut, people who have never paid into any fund will reap the benefits.
From McCaughey's web site;
"Seniors also risk losing access to colonoscopies and other preventative services. The Obama health law empowers the secretary of Health and Human Services to eliminate preventative services for seniors based on the recommendations of the US Preventative Services Task Force (the panel that recommended women over 74 not get routine mammograms). A half page later the secretary is empowered to “increase” preventative services for Medicaid recipients. The winners and losers are clear."