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Medicare mayhem: Who will pay the price?

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    Peter Johnson, Jr. weighs in

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She swears it twice percent of hospitals in the United States are operating currently in the red part of that reason when Medicare patients come in for treatment.

The government only covers a portion of the bill so.

Will probably get worse if the president does indeed cut 716.

Billion dollars from Medicare.

We're putting that to Peter Johnson junior who joins -- the morning break in the numbers.

The cuts -- in the law the cuts are happening.

And I think it's not political it's proven to say let's resource is equal more deaths.

And so we had a big talk of death panels when Obama -- was being put into effect this is the real death -- People will die there's a study that shows as a result of the balanced budget act.

Back in the ninety's that Medicare reductions cause they can common and a rise in deaths in people -- suffered a heart attack them in hospitals.

It didn't happen immediately but took place over time.

Because of staffing reductions but in my view the quality of health care world suffer and it will spill over from the Medicare population.

Into the general population -- so what you'll see.

And then -- let's look at the that that the mortality.

Numbers if we haven't seen those already the mortality numbers show that people in fact will die as result of hard -- -- -- who's gonna pay the price of these Medicare cuts.

These Medicare cuts are going to be paid for.

By every one right there is something called the spillover effect and we see the spill -- effect in the largest cuts more people died in hospitals.

In the past.

My belief is and wouldn't she -- it study believe that that we'll have the same effect.

Going forward in in American -- Hospitals are -- the costs in America 49%.

Of hospitals.

Spend more caring for patients.

Then they receive right so when you cut 716.

Billion dollars in Medicare -- -- not only will nursing be cut out for Medicare patients.

There will be cut out across the board and people will in fact suffer as -- All those reduced resource you know and and -- did the Democrats famously have tried to use medi scare right against Paul Ryan over the last couple years but that last mortality graphic that's that menace well he let affects the sand -- a scare tactic was that the biggest lie out of 2011.

We do know and it has been proven that teaching hospitals will suffer.

Those hospitals associated.

With universe just makes -- if you take 716.

Billion dollars out of a program there's going to be less program the porous will suffer.

And all Americans will suffer in the -- I'm very second in a -- take a look at an okay B Johnson junior excellently well thank you.

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