GOP Senators, Roy Blunt and Peter Kinder are attacking Medicare Advantage “cuts” proposed by Republicans earlier this year.
A White House spokesman says Obama is likely to endorse using about $139 billion in unallocated TARP funds for a new jobs creation program.
Sen. Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, has written a column explaining his opposition to Medicare reductions planned in the Senate version of health care reform legislation.
"Seniors are particularly at risk," Roberts writes. "This bill slashes half a trillion dollars from Medicare, and uses it to establish a huge [...]
Yesterday, the American Medical Association endorsed the thrust of the Senate Democrats' health care bill. Though they objected to a tax on "elective cosmetic medical procedures" and the creation of an Independent Medicare Advisory Board, they praised its health insurance regulation and new tax credits to help low- and' [...]
From the office of Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts:
Today, Sen. Roberts said the huge cuts to Medicare in the partisan health care reform bill would be devastating to seniors.
On the Senate floor today, Senator Roberts spoke in favor of an effort by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to eliminate the devastating Medicare [...]
Six years ago yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a controversial and still-unfunded Medicare prescription-drug bill with an historic and extremely controversial early morning vote. At least three of Missouri's Representatives -- Roy Blunt, Jo Ann Emerson and Todd Akin -- played key roles in [...]
The Bush tax cuts are set to expire next year. Caps on Medicare and Social Security are going to be raised and lifted. Cap and Trade, ineffective stimulus, busted entitlement programs, and pogroms against private firms and small business have made us all a little uneasy about investing capital.
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