Now that the Medicare expansion has been stripped from the Democrats' health care legislation, we would do well to focus on the Medicaid expansion. The legislation would expand eligibility for Medicaid to those whose income equals 133 percent or less of the poverty level. According to Mississippi Governor ' [...]
Yuval Levin points out that the way the health care legislative process has played out makes it easy to miss the forest for the trees. The trees were the public option, Medicare expansion, and abortion language; the forest is the legislation that exists now that nearly all of [...]
The view of Ezra Klein, Paul Krugman, and other leftists that Joe Lieberman opposed the public option and the expansion of Medicare in order to "settle an old electoral score" appears to be based on the claim that in September of this year, Lieberman supported the Medicare expansion. In other [...]
Last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that a compromise had been reached with moderates, allowing the Senate to move forward on health care. Almost immediatly that proved to be untrue, as several Senators, most notably Senator Liebermann indicated they did not agree with the Medicare expansion. [...]
The Senate Democrats, along with Joe Lieberman who caucuses with them, held a meeting this evening to figure out how to salvage health care reform legislaton. The answer, apparently, was to jettison Harry Reid's ridiculous Medicare expansion approach. According to ABC News:
Senators emerging from the special Democratic caucus' [...]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, has concluded that if Majority Leader Reid's "compromise" health care legislation becomes law, America will spend $234 billion more on health care over the next decade.
This is only the [...]
Yesterday, the Senate defeated an amendment proposed by John McCain that would have stripped the Democrats' health care legislation of cuts to Medicare (more than $400 billion of them). Sen. McCain's amendment was defeated by a vote of 58-42. Ben Nelson and Jim Webb were the only Democrats who voted' [...]
Yes, the old standard. "How do you know a politician is lying? His lips are moving."
John Stossel on how they continue to lie to us. And, the money quote:
Medicare is already $37 trillion in the hole. Yet the Democrats proudly cite Medicare when they demand support for the health [...]
From the NRCC:
Tonight, Democrats chose to enrich trial lawyers; their political contributors while cutting Medicare benefits for seniors.
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