Last Friday, the Obama re-election campaign allowed America's
crazy uncle to get in front of a group of Florida seniors and
frighten the bejabbers out of them with horror stories about the
evil designs Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have on Medicare and Social
Security. As his entourage cringed in the background, Biden brayed
as only he can bray. In addition to repeating long-ago-debunked
claims about the Romney-Ryan Medicare plan and a new stretcher
about a fictitious GOP plot to tax Social Security, the Vice
President attempted to reassure his audience that ObamaCare can
siphon $716 billion from Medicare while simultaneously improving
their benefits. He accomplished his last feat by unilaterally
adding a new benefit to Medicare -- the free colonoscopy.
Biden told the crowd: "President Obama has increased the benefits available to people on Medicare…if you conclude you need a colonoscopy…you don't have to pay a co-pay for that." Many conservatives have pounced on this claim as if it were merely evidence that Obamacare is a vote-buying scheme. But the real problem is that it is a lie. While "reform" did add some wellness benefits to Medicare, the insinuation that colonoscopies are now free is absurd. If, for example, a screening colonoscopy actually finds a problem, the patient will almost always have some out-of-pocket expense. As Medicare puts it, "If a screening test results in the biopsy or removal of a lesion or growth, the procedure is considered diagnostic and you may have to pay coinsurance or a copayment."
Having delivered himself of the "free colonoscopy" whopper, Biden moved on to the latest fictional work of horror created by the script writers of the Obama reelection campaign: "If Gov. Romney's plan goes into effect, it could mean that everyone, every one of you, would be paying more on taxes on your Social Security…The average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in taxes for their Social Security. Ladies and gentlemen, that's…while these guys are…hemorrhaging tax cuts for the super wealthy." This baloney is based on a "study" by the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the left-leaning Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, and it amounts to nothing more than speculation based on a variety of assumptions not found in any Romney proposal.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/01/biden-escapes-from-the-attic-a
Biden told the crowd: "President Obama has increased the benefits available to people on Medicare…if you conclude you need a colonoscopy…you don't have to pay a co-pay for that." Many conservatives have pounced on this claim as if it were merely evidence that Obamacare is a vote-buying scheme. But the real problem is that it is a lie. While "reform" did add some wellness benefits to Medicare, the insinuation that colonoscopies are now free is absurd. If, for example, a screening colonoscopy actually finds a problem, the patient will almost always have some out-of-pocket expense. As Medicare puts it, "If a screening test results in the biopsy or removal of a lesion or growth, the procedure is considered diagnostic and you may have to pay coinsurance or a copayment."
Having delivered himself of the "free colonoscopy" whopper, Biden moved on to the latest fictional work of horror created by the script writers of the Obama reelection campaign: "If Gov. Romney's plan goes into effect, it could mean that everyone, every one of you, would be paying more on taxes on your Social Security…The average senior would have to pay $460 a year more in taxes for their Social Security. Ladies and gentlemen, that's…while these guys are…hemorrhaging tax cuts for the super wealthy." This baloney is based on a "study" by the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the left-leaning Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, and it amounts to nothing more than speculation based on a variety of assumptions not found in any Romney proposal.
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/10/01/biden-escapes-from-the-attic-a
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