As the Foot Turns, starring Hopalong Bob

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 TheMastersNemesis (4,848 posts)

Push Within Medicare To Degrade Services To The Disabled. Prosthetics Labeled A "Luxury".
There is a push on Medicare to degrade services to disabled Americans that would also probably effect veterans who are on Medicare and not within the VA system. Auditors have been auditing Medicare costs. And they have focused on the cost of prosthetics for disable people who need prosthetic divides to function.

There is a push for a policy that labeled necessary prosthetics as a "luxury item". The policy change labeling prosthetics as a "LUXURY" would change the quality of prosthetic a Medicare recipient receives. Individuals unfortunate enough to lose a limb would be allowed a prosthesis going back to the 1970's technology. More modern technology prostheses would NOT be provided.

1970's prosthetic technology would be more like wooden leg strapped on by leather straps. In some case NO prostheses would be provided. Medicare patients would have to purchase more modern devices themselves that few could afford. This new policy means that many patients would no longer have a quality of live newer technology would provides.

All of this mayhem seems to come from a RW meme that disabled people are a drag on the economy. It is part of the idea from the GOP that the disabled and sick have NO VALUE to society. Medicare could save billions by degrading or in some cases ending Medicare patients having prosthetics to continue life on a decent level.

LINK - www.Save Prosthetics.org

Background: Bob lost a foot to, I believe, gout-related sepsis. Now he would like a free prosthetic foot, but GOPPERS are holding it just out of his reach.


He sure does reference the GOP a lot, for someone who knows damn well who's been running the country since 2009:

TheMastersNemesis (4,848 posts)
8. New Policy Probably Linked To The GOP Idea "Disabled Must Be Put To Work" Meme

Based on my conversation with my prosthetic provider Medicare hired "private contractors" to do audits. And this idea seems to have come from those auditors to save Medicare money. "Private contractors are paid a commission on ALL the money they save the Medicare system. So I guess that nothing is "off the table".

The RW and GOP wants to cut all domestic programs. Anything people get from the government is a "luxurious entitlement" in their world view. So these "entitlements" have to be essentially ended and really not just reduced. I am sure all the GOP presidential candidates believe this basic philosophy.

The only entitlement are subsidies for corporations and tax cuts to the rich. Everything else is taboo to the GOP>

I have a small amount of empathy for you, Bob, seeing as how you lost a limb, but for everything else you post, **** you. You want a prosthetic device so bad? Try THIS link: www.adameve.com/sextoys. You won't find a foot, but you'll find a fist, and you can shove it up your ass just like everyone else.

[FlaGator]

The keep forgetting that Obama had something like 8 billion dollars in savings to medicare and medicaid. How did they think he did that without cutting benefits and freebies.

[franksolich]

Bob has a bad habit of looking at only the down side of things.

On the up side of things, 1970s technology in artificial limbs sure beats the Stone Age technology used in other places, mostly socialist paradises.

So the rectal aperture's got to be happy he's not as badly off as millions of others.

[BannedFromDU]

Bob has a bad habit of looking at only the down side of things.

On the up side of things, 1970s technology in artificial limbs sure beats the Stone Age technology used in other places, mostly socialist paradises.

So the rectal aperture's got to be happy he's not as badly off as millions of others.

     He looks so happy in all the pre-amputation pics of him I've seen. Maybe if he gets a new foot, he'll revert back to that same old sweet-tempered, rational, reasonable Bob we used to know.

[Big Dog]

Bob has a bad habit of looking at only the down side of things.

On the up side of things, 1970s technology in artificial limbs sure beats the Stone Age technology used in other places, mostly socialist paradises.

So the rectal aperture's got to be happy he's not as badly off as millions of others.

Yeah, he could have one of these:

[GOBUCKS]

Why should Pegleg Bob have anything  better than Captain Ahab?

As a whaler, Capt. Ahab was a productive member of society.

Pegleg Bob is a democrat deadbeat.

[landofconfusion80]

Bob has a bad habit of looking at only the down side of things.

On the up side of things, 1970s technology in artificial limbs sure beats the Stone Age technology used in other places, mostly socialist paradises.

So the rectal aperture's got to be happy he's not as badly off as millions of others.

How about that one bouncy about bragging of helping a native boy on a bus? he seemed content with his peg leg that the primitive supposedly paid for.

[BannedFromDU]

How about that one bouncy about bragging of helping a native boy on a bus? he seemed content with his peg leg that the primitive supposedly paid for.

     I think you may have been confused by the 'rectal aperture' reference. FreakinDJ (also an asshole) is the DUmmy who abducted the Filipino lad.

[landofconfusion80]

     I think you may have been confused by the 'rectal aperture' reference. FreakinDJ (also an asshole) is the DUmmy who abducted the Filipino lad.

that's the one! so why is it okay to have primitive crutches for a Filipino boy and not okay for domestic poor people to have the same?  how bout that wealth redistribution...

[obumazombie]

Here's another fine mess a DUmmie has gotten into that Buzzy could explain and rationalize.
In the end it would as usual be the fault of some conservative, and Buzzy wrapping up his comments with "how can you caver's live with yourselves".
But I notice Buzzy never seeks to alleviate any of the problems of his fellow libs.

[98ZJUSMC]

TheMastersNemesis (4,848 posts)

Push Within Medicare To Degrade Services To The Disabled. Prosthetics Labeled A "Luxury".

There is a push on Medicare to degrade services

Different meanings there, Stumpy.


Artist's Conception of Bob

[thundley4]

They shoot horses, don't they?

[tanstaafl]

Yeah, he could have one of these:

Yeah, but then he'd be demanding his free parrot.

Arrrgh!

[franksolich]

Yeah, but then he'd be demanding his free parrot.

Arrrgh!

But why should Bob get anything, period, for his limblessness, and for free?

He lost the foot due to his own negligence; leading a too-easy, too-comfortable, too-secure, too-affluent of a life, he got gout and then lost the foot due to that.

It was something that didn't have to happen, and it was his own fault.

<<<don't think the rest of us (taxpayers) should have to pay for the poor decisions of others.

[obumazombie]

But why should Bob get anything, period, for his limblessness, and for free?

He lost the foot due to his own negligence; leading a too-easy, too-comfortable, too-secure, too-affluent of a life, he got gout and then lost the foot due to that.

It was something that didn't have to happen, and it was his own fault.

<<<don't think the rest of us (taxpayers) should have to pay for the poor decisions of others.

Foot the bill.

[tanstaafl]

But why should Bob get anything, period, for his limblessness, and for free?

He lost the foot due to his own negligence; leading a too-easy, too-comfortable, too-secure, too-affluent of a life, he got gout and then lost the foot due to that.

It was something that didn't have to happen, and it was his own fault.

<<<don't think the rest of us (taxpayers) should have to pay for the poor decisions of others.

But, it's free shit, franksolich. Free Shit. The country owes the Master Bater. Even if it's only a peg leg and a parrot.

[franksolich]

AN OPEN LETTER TO BOB

Man, what is wrong with you, dude?

Even when you’re among people you ostensibly like, you look like a guy who has a turd inside his intestine that’s as big as a bowling ball, and no matter how hard he strains, he can’t eject it.

Life is too short, and time too valuable, to be a nattering nabob of negativity, a proponent of pessimism, a practitioner of rectal aperturity—especially in your case, dude, given your age and condition.  Time—and Death—waits for no man, particularly a man who’s already expended a great deal of it.

I could never figure out why you’ve been such an old grouch, dude.  You came into this world in a good family with solid emotional, spiritual, and financial stability; there’s no way you could have not turned out a winner…..unless you yourself choose not to.

You had a great time the two years you were in the military service, after which you got a well-paying well-benefited governmental desk-sitting job, which you held for decades until recently retiring…..with a pension and benefits that would be the envy of anyone else spending the same years in private enterprise.

You’ve had a pretty easy life, Bob, dude, sir.

So why are you always so ****ing angry, bitter, hate-filled, negative, about things?

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We don’t know each other well enough to compare our lots in life, dude, but I suspect it’s reasonable to speculate that franksolich has had a tougher row to hoe than you have, Bob.  My autobiography’s writ all over the DUmpster, and while I myself tend to think life has treated me much more gently than I deserve, there’s plenty of others, in both real life and here in the DUmpster, who seem to disagree; they can’t understand that given such things, franksolich turned out as well as I did.

Always of good cheer, good-naturedly self-deprecatory, upbeat, hail-fellow-well-met, a Pollyanna who looks for something good in all things…..and usually finds it.

So tell me, dude—is there anything in your life for which you’re grateful?

[67 Rover]

Yeah, but then he'd be demanding his free therapy parrot.

Arrrgh!

FIFY 

[BannedFromDU]

AN OPEN LETTER TO BOB

Man, what is wrong with you, dude?

Even when you’re among people you ostensibly like, you look like a guy who has a turd inside his intestine that’s as big as a bowling ball, and no matter how hard he strains, he can’t eject it.

Life is too short, and time too valuable, to be a nattering nabob of negativity, a proponent of pessimism, a practitioner of rectal aperturity—especially in your case, dude, given your age and condition.  Time—and Death—waits for no man, particularly a man who’s already expended a great deal of it.

I could never figure out why you’ve been such an old grouch, dude.  You came into this world in a good family with solid emotional, spiritual, and financial stability; there’s no way you could have not turned out a winner…..unless you yourself choose not to.

You had a great time the two years you were in the military service, after which you got a well-paying well-benefited governmental desk-sitting job, which you held for decades until recently retiring…..with a pension and benefits that would be the envy of anyone else spending the same years in private enterprise.

You’ve had a pretty easy life, Bob, dude, sir.

So why are you always so ****ing angry, bitter, hate-filled, negative, about things?

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We don’t know each other well enough to compare our lots in life, dude, but I suspect it’s reasonable to speculate that franksolich has had a tougher row to hoe than you have, Bob.  My autobiography’s writ all over the DUmpster, and while I myself tend to think life has treated me much more gently than I deserve, there’s plenty of others, in both real life and here in the DUmpster, who seem to disagree; they can’t understand that given such things, franksolich turned out as well as I did.

Always of good cheer, good-naturedly self-deprecatory, upbeat, hail-fellow-well-met, a Pollyanna who looks for something good in all things…..and usually finds it.

So tell me, dude—is there anything in your life for which you’re grateful?

     Coach, it is a universal truth that there is a fine line between self-deprecation and self-defecation. You possess the former; Banzin is hounded by the latter.

[wasp69]

Here's another fine mess a DUmmie has gotten into that Buzzy could explain and rationalize.
In the end it would as usual be the fault of some conservative, and Buzzy wrapping up his comments with "how can you caver's live with yourselves".
But I notice Buzzy never seeks to alleviate any of the problems of his fellow libs.

Of course not.  It's not his job to come down from his ivory tower to mingle among the hoi polloi, only to stand at the window to tut-tut, and demand that someone do something at someone else's expense.  As long as Paulie BuzzNuts does that, his intentions were good and that's all that is needed.

[Karin]

You want a prosthetic device so bad? Try THIS link: www.adameve.com/sextoys. You won't find a foot, but you'll find a fist, and you can shove it up your ass just like everyone else.

 

[wasp69]

TheMastersNemesis (4,848 posts)

Push Within Medicare To Degrade Services To The Disabled. Prosthetics Labeled A "Luxury".

Auditors have been auditing Medicare costs.

There is a push for a policy that labeled necessary prosthetics as a "luxury item". The policy change labeling prosthetics as a "LUXURY" would change the quality of prosthetic a Medicare recipient receives.

In some case NO prostheses would be provided.

Medicare patients would have to purchase more modern devices themselves that few could afford.

All of this mayhem seems to come from a RW meme...  It is part of the idea from the GOP...  New Policy Probably Linked To The GOP...  The RW and GOP wants to cut...  I am sure all the GOP presidential candidates believe this basic philosophy.

Well now, ain't this a bit of a bitch?  Poor Bob, you are truly the shining example of the inability to make logical conclusions and the liberal malady of how history begins when you wake up in the morning.

Your words, which I have quoted above, would lead the uninformed reader (most of the tards at the DUmp) to believe those mean Republicans are trying to deny amputees proper care so they can continue to light expensive cigars with $100 bills.  But, Bob-o, there's one minor problem with that - your president's signature legislation:

The ObamaCare Medicare cuts are estimated at $716 billion.

http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-medicare/

Americans also will pay hidden taxes, such as the 2.3 percent medical-device tax that will inflate the cost of items such as pacemakers, stents and prosthetic limbs.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/25/new-obamacare-fees-coming-in-2014/

Well, Bob, will you look at that!  In your rush for !!FreeShit!!, you managed to shoot yourself in the foot...  Ooops, sorry, touchy subject.

Funny thing is, the very people who tried to prevent Medicare from losing hundreds of billions of dollars in an indiscriminate cut, you wanted to treat as terrorists.

Sun Sep 22, 2013, 09:34 AM
TheMastersNemesis (4,852 posts)

How Much Longer Do We Need To Treat The GOP In A Civil Manner?

The GOP public spectacle after the defund Obamacare should be a total outrage to any person with even the smallest amount of conscience. To celebrate what will eventually be the end of so many Americans because they cannot get health care should make the public angry.


Response to FUMCSDLCBDPOS (Reply #6)Sun Sep 22, 2013, 09:53 AM
TheMastersNemesis (4,852 posts)

7. I See Them As Misguided Fools Who Think Negotiating With These Terrorists Is The Way

Unless we aggressively counter the rhetoric of the right and GOP and its war on the 99% we will eventually lose and the dystopian world in this country will be what we get.

The public GOP spectacle after the vote tells me these people will use violence to get their way given the chance.


Response to Bluenorthwest (Reply #3)Sun Sep 22, 2013, 09:43 AM
TheMastersNemesis (4,852 posts)

5. I Favor The Verbal Sledgehammer Between The Eyes Approach Myself.

Call them for the scum sucking bastards they are.


Response to Zorra (Reply #10)Sun Sep 22, 2013, 10:16 AM
TheMastersNemesis (4,852 posts)
11.

I sense a lot of hot anger on the RW side who are the ones really pushing the violence from their underground.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023710672

So, in your rush to condemn the party who tried their best to save you from your own greed and stupidity, in your rush to engage in your favorite brand of stochastic terrorism, you managed to overlook the most obvious little details.  Details, Bob, that you were warned about and instead chose to flail at monsters of your own fevered imagination.

If you have to slap-thump your ass down the street for the rest of your worthless life, you have no one but yourself to blame.

[obumazombie]

^Yeah !


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