Political Quotes

“I want to reach back into the past, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, where similar cuts were made to the Medicare program, because we have been accused of making this things up on this side of the aisle when it comes to rationing of services by our Democratic colleagues. And they just don't know how to deal with the facts. They don't know how to deal with the reality. The Medicare part B cuts have been made. Today in this country we ration health care services. But we ration government health care services. Medicare part B. My background was rehabilitation services, licensed as a nursing home administrator. An older adult that is going in for therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, you are going to an outpatient clinic or into a skilled nursing facility because you have had some type of a disease or disability that disabled you that you need rehabilitation services, did you know that today the Federal Government under Medicare part B rations those services? There is a cap that is placed on how much therapy services you can receive on an annual basis. I know that because, unfortunately, I was the person that was responsible in my facilities to track where those patients were in terms of that cap. And when they reached that cap, we had to serve them notice and their family members notice that they were no longer eligible for Medicare, for Medicare part B specifically, for those rehabilitation services.”