If Blanche Lincoln has her way, the Democrats will vote tomorrow to limit health care execs salaries to no more than what the President makes. In other words, $400,000. Saturday, the Democrats stopped a Republican attempt to restore Medicare cuts with 18 votes to spare. Sunday, the President will go [...]
You have done well so far in airing the current problems that physicians have with Medicare (& Medicaid) reimbursements. One of your surgeon callers adequately described that an in-house level III consult is worth $70 (of which overhead & taxes take ?), and few physicians [...]
On the floor of the US Senate today, Sen Chris Dodd (D-CT) declared about the Democratic health care reform proposal, "What is cut are private health care plans under the Medicare Advantage program." He views that as a good thing.After surviving the first cloture vote last month, "debate" on the final Senate health care bill officially kicked off this week. Republicans are up to their usual tricks, railing against "Medicare cuts" they have previously supported and spinning the latest Congressional Budget Office report that reaffirmed reform will bring down the [...]
The Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the vote (to allow the health-care reform bill to the floor for debate) was anything but procedural — casting it as a referendum on the bill itself, which he said would raise taxes, cut Medicare and create a "massive and unsustainable [...]
From the NRCC:
“‘They say, wait a minute: For 40 years, the Democrats have been fighting to preserve Medicare, other people in the country are fighting to get rid of it. It's always been the Democrats that have stood up to protect Medicare,’ Foster said. ‘Now how likely is it that' [...]
While the bill will slash Medicare funding, it will also direct billions of dollars' [...]
On multiple occasions this month, Fox Chicago has parroted conservative talking points about the health care bills circulating in Washington and their purported effect on Medicare. So it probably should come as no surprise that the station's anchors would fail to rebut such claims when put forward by their guests.
Still, it's irritating to [...]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi Thursday outlined fourteen health care reform provisions that would take place immediately, upon passage of the health insurance reform legislation currently making its way through Congress:
BEGINS TO CLOSE THE MEDICARE PART D DONUT HOLE — Reduces the donut hole by $500 and [...]
