re: #20 blueraven

See above. $415 billion comes from cutting reimbursements; $156 billion from Medicare Advantage. The problem with the reimbursement cuts is that, as the NYT has shown, we are already having doctors refused to take new Medicare patients because of Medicare’s low rates (about 50% of private rates).

In the end, however, it is likely that these cuts will never happen or be significantly reduced. They have been delayed for the last ten years and the support of the AMA was secured by promising to delay them further.