Another Day, Another Regime Whistleblower

Meet Richard Foster, Medicare's chief actuary and undoubtedly next on the Obamunist enemies list.  His unforgivable sin?  Calling bullshit on the White House's boast of having "saved Medicare":

In more concise, "wetter" English, Medicare is doomed.  Why?  Because it's driven costs to the moon and doesn't pay participating physicians bellybutton lint.  Which means ever fewer participating physicians unless their reimbursement rates are restored (the infamous "doc fix"), but that will just delay the inevitable collapse.

We've known this for years, of course.  Newt Gingrich knew it way back in 1995, which is why he wanted to reform Medicare then when there was time to do so "non-wrenchingly."  Now we're at the time of reckoning, and not only is The One still running away from genuine reform, but this propaganda facade doesn't include the double-counting of the reimbursement cuts the doc fix would, um, "fix" also being applied to O-Care in order to put over its bogus "deficit reduction" fairy tale.

The money quote, AFAIC, is in Ensign Ed's lede:

Last week, the Obama administration used the Medicare Trustees Report to argue that its ObamaCare bill had created new life for the troubled entitlement.  The economics site E21 took a closer look at the report and discovered that it contained an unprecedented dissent — from Medicare’s own chief actuary.  The memo claimed that the estimates used by the White House and its allies underestimated costs by a whopping 68% and could not possibly be seen as a good-faith projection of the program’s future:

The Obama/Pelosi/Reid Axis has, in essence, destroyed medical care for the elderly in order to lay the foundation for destroying medical care for everybody else.  And they're lying about it like the dirty, filthy Marxist-Alinskyists they are.  And every time they do so, they breed more whistleblowers who out and shoot down their Big Lies, which cements that image of the regime in the eyes of an angry, betrayed electorate.

There's a reckoning coming, alright.  And Red Barry is in denial about both of them.