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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom Health Freedom Minute October 28, 2015 Ask Your Doctor How They Get Paid Several ...

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Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom

Health Freedom Minute October 28, 2015

Ask Your Doctor How They Get Paid Several people have told me that Obamacare does not impact them because theyʼre on Medicare. But Obamacare took $500 billion out of Medicare despite 10,000 babyboomers joining Medicare every day. Plus the law moves away from payment for actual services and toward payment for so-called performance, value or quality, as defined by the government. Doctors will be paid lump-sum bundled payments for certain procedures or annual lump-sum payments to spread over all care given in a year. This creates a conflict of interest between patients and doctors. Seniors may not know when a less expensive hip joint is used or life-improving surgery is never mentioned. Ask your doctor how they get paid. “CMS announces additional participants in pilot project to improve care and reduce costs for Medicare,” Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (press release), August 13, 2015.

Presented daily by Twila Brase, President, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom. The Health Freedom Minute is now heard in 41 states: Mornings M-Th at AM1280 (The Patriot) in MN and 91.5 AM WHKC (FreedomFM) in OH, afternoons on American Family Radio, and daily on the Bott Radio Network.

CCHF ● 161 St. Anthony Ave. ● Suite 923 ● St. Paul, MN 55103 ● 651-646-8935 ● www.cchfreedom.org CCHF supports patient and doctor freedom, medical innovation, and the right of citizens to a confidential patient-doctor relationship.