Medicare Cuts To Be Avoided By Pushing Upwardly-Mobile Back Into Poverty

``So just to be clear, we’re planning to pay for high reimbursement rates for doctors, among the highest in the world, by penalizing lucky duckies who manage to lift their families out of poverty by essentially garnishing their new wages. This would raise $19.2 billion dollars in a direct transfer from workers to doctors.''

This seems particularly dishonest, not to mention counter-productive in a recession/depression. Nothing like government predatory tax law to avoid making hard cuts and restructurings to the health care system. This isn't too surprising, because the 23% "doc cuts" threatened to cause a complete breakdown of the government-regimented health care system, making it vulnerable to an organic free market revival.