During an interview with Greta van Susteren Wednesday night, Bill Nelson told a whopper or two. Follow this link to read the entire transcript. Here’s the whopper Sen. Nelson told:
VAN SUSTEREN: Does the bill — does the bill cut Medicare?
NELSON: What it does is…Medicare Advantage, that is a 14 [...]
To put this in context, Lieberman was invited to participate in the process that led to the Medicare buy-in. His opposition would have killed it before liberals invested in the idea. Instead, he skipped the [...]
Last night, the Democrats ‘caved’ on expanding Medicare to appease Sen. Lieberman. Sen. Reid tried projecting a positive tone:
“Democrats aren’t going to let the American people down,” Majority Leader Harry Reid said after a closed-door meeting called to discuss last-minute trade-offs in the legislation that President Barack Obama has [...]
Last night, the Democrats 'caved' on expanding Medicare to appease Sen. Lieberman. Sen. Reid tried projecting a positive tone:
"Democrats aren't going to let the American people down," Majority Leader Harry Reid said after a closed-door meeting called to discuss last-minute trade-offs in the legislation that President Barack Obama has' [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Check out this neat little piece of bias from the AP.
The measure combines $447 billion in operating budgets with about $650 billion in mandatory payments for federal benefit programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. It wraps together six individual spending bills and also contains more than 5,000 back-home [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, December 11.
1. Jon Walker says that the "'Medicare buy-in' idea might not really be Medicare at all, it might in fact be fake Medicare, one which "would lack almost all the benefits of Medicare." Walker adds," [...]
Mayo Clinic leaders on Friday warned that a proposed expansion to Medicare would be bad for providers, patients and the country.
“To grow the public plan that is already crumbling will be bad for citizens of this country,” said Mayo Clinic President and CEO Dr. John Noseworthy.
He said the clinic already [...]
What’s not to like about the idea of expanding an entitlement program that is already speeding towards collapse, mainly because too many people are entering it already? As it turns out, plenty — and even the New York Times has noticed. It has higher premiums, none of the out-of-pocket [...]
Eager to pass its health care reform bill, the U.S. Senate dropped the public option in favor of expanding Medicare. The main changes would be to lower the age of eligibility from 65 to 55 and raise the cap on income eligibility to from around [...]
It’s long been my contention that Amy Klobuchar isn’t a moderate. Thanks to her voting to slash Medicare’s home care budget, not to mention voting for slashing $460,000,000,000 from the overall Medicare bill, we now have proof that she’s willing to put a higher priority on partisanship than on [...]
It's long been my contention that Amy Klobuchar isn't a moderate. Thanks to her voting to slash Medicare's home care budget, not to mention voting for slashing $460,000,000,000 from the overall Medicare bill, we now have proof that she's willing to put a higher priority on partisanship than on' [...]
The post’s title says it all. According to Open Congress, Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken voted to cut Medicare’s home care budget by 14.5 percent:
By a vote of 53 to 41, the Senate on Saturday rejected a Republican effort to block cutbacks in payments to home [...]
The post's title says it all. According to Open Congress, Minnesota Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken voted to cut Medicare's home care budget by 14.5 percent:
By a vote of 53 to 41, the Senate on Saturday rejected a Republican effort to block cutbacks in payments to home [...]
Sunday, I watched At Issue With Tom Hauser. Hauser’s interview of Neil Johnson got my blood boiling. When you read this partial transcript of the interview, you’ll understand:
Hauser: We’re gonna talk now with someone who has some thoughts on what’s being debated in Washington. He is Neil Johnson, the executive [...]
Sunday, I watched At Issue With Tom Hauser. Hauser's interview of Neil Johnson got my blood boiling. When you read this partial transcript of the interview, you'll understand:
Hauser: We're gonna talk now with someone who has some thoughts on what's being debated in Washington. He is Neil Johnson, the executive [...]
John McCain got hot under the collar yesterday when the AARP opposed his amendment to block massive cuts in the Medicare program as a funding mechanism for ObamaCare. Calling them a “liberal Democratic group,” McCain urged seniors to cut up their membership cards and send them to the AARP in [...]
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 30.
1. To put it mildly, Jon Walker believes that the Urban Institute's new report "endorsing the idea of a super-hard trigger for a robust Medicare-style public option" is off base. Walker argues that the [...]
Courtesy of Keith Hennessey. Memo from Chief Actuary of Medicare and Medicaid Rick Foster here. Hennessey notes that the 18 million who are "uninsured and paying the penalty tax" are "clearly worse off than they would be under current law" because they end up [...]
This is in today's Washington Post:
A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system -- would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to [...]
A blockbuster study by the bureaucracy that manages Medicare and Medicaid threw a deluge of cold water on claims by Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats that $500 billion in cuts to Medicare would improve coverage for seniors. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported that the cuts would [...]
