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• Better Warn Grandma: Democrats Just Cut $43 BILLION From Medicare

  —BluegrassBulletin.com

  This from New York Times:

  By a vote of 53 to 41, the Senate on Saturday rejected a Republican effort to block cutbacks in payments to home health agencies that provide nursing care and therapy to homebound Medicare beneficiaries.

  Republicans voted against the cuts, saying [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 8:38am EST
  by Marc Carey

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• Dems Attack Each Other Over Health Care

  —Elephants in the Blue Grass

  Perhaps the most interesting fights on the Senate floor these days are between Democrats. Take this exchange on proposed cuts to Medicare.
  Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) likes the cuts, arguing that "what is cut are private health care plans under the Medicare Advantage Program." As if the quasi-private nature of [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:50pm EST
  

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• mammograms and govt vs. private-sector rationing

  —SchansBlog

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  Mammograms are the second, visible example of the new rationing battle.
  
  (The first is Medicare-- and the claim that the govt will root out waste while cutting spending. Left unanswered and usually even unasked is why we would trust the govt to run more health care if they've been' [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:05pm EST
  by Eric Schansberg

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• Rand is confused

  —Barefoot and Progressive

  Sure, about whether states manage Medicaid. But why is he calling for the continuation of this EVIL COMMUNIST ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM FOR POOR LAZY PEOPLE?!? I thought he was going to get rid of it and Medicare and Social Security, just like a true White Male Liberty Patriot would do?
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:00pm EST
  

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• Blockbuster: Pelosi/Obama Care would increase health care costs more than current laws

  —Conservative Edge

  
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  In a block buster report from the non-partisan Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the CMMS said that the Pelosi/Obama Care Monstrosity on the Potomac would increase the cost of health care as a percentage [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  

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• Rand Hulk SMASH Medicare

  —Barefoot and Progressive

  From Rand Paul's "Libertastic Health Care Freedom Forum" this Saturday:
  Paul said that 90 percent of health care is elective, not emergency.
  
  “What I hear from my patients is not there’s an access problem, it’s that it’s so expensive.”
  
  Paul blamed government intervention into the market via [...]

  Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:10am EST
  

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• Bombshell: Pelosi/Obamacare would add $289 billion to health costs over 10 years

  —Conservative Edge

  The chief actuary for the indepenednet Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), has said that health care costs will increase by $289 billion over ten years under the Pelosi/Obama Monstrosity on the Potomac.  The revelation damages the claims of the D.C. liberals that the plan would reduce costs.  [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:56pm EST
  

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• D.C. liberals wasting Medicare money at three times last years rate

  —Conservative Edge

  The AP is reporting that an independent audit shows almost $47 billion in questionable Medicare payments this year.  That is three times the rate of wasteful spending from a year ago.  Add to this, the fact that the D.C. liberals are proposing to increase the government health care program by [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 5:40pm EST
  

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