Another first for Obama, elderly cancer patients turned away
Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 4:57 pm
Cancer clinics across the country have begun turning away thousands of Medicare patients, blaming the Government's cuts to what they will pay. Oncologists say the reduced funding, which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially.Our Government is cutting off treatment to the elderly to use that money to buy votes from the 20 million illegal immigrants who will get free medical care. No wonder the Government is taking all the ammo off of the streets and trying to ban weapons, the more the people learn of Obama's agenda, the madder they're getting.
Patients at these clinics would need to seek treatment elsewhere, such as at hospitals that might not have the capacity to accommodate them.
“If we treated the patients receiving the most expensive drugs, we’d be out of business in six months to a year,” said Jeff Vacirca, chief executive of North Shore Hematology Oncology Associates in New York. “The drugs we’re going to lose money on we’re not going to administer right now.”