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Dramatically Different Medicare Bills Set Hospitals Thinking
May 11th
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Source: www.npr.org – Saturday, May 11, 2013
Medicare Pulls Back Curtain On Hospital Bills : Shots
Dramatically Different Medicare Bills Set Hospitals Thinking
Obama’s Embrace of Austerity: Cuts Social Security, Medicare
Apr 11th
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Source: gorillaradioblog.blogspot.com – Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Obama Fully Embraces Austerity with Cuts to Social Security, Medicare by TRNN B ob Pollin: Costs of Social Security and Medicare have nothing to do with rise in fiscal deficit Robert Pollin is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the founding co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the US and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the US. His latest book is Back to Full Employment. Other books include: A Measure of Fairness: the Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States, and Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity.
Obama’s Embrace of Austerity: Cuts Social Security, Medicare
Obama Renews Call For Wealthy To Pay Higher Medicare Costs
Apr 10th
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com – Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Some seniors would pay more for Medicare benefits in the future under President Barack Obama's budget proposal for the coming fiscal year. The $ 3.8 trillion White House budget unveiled Wednesday renews calls for charging wealthy Medicare beneficiaries more for physician and prescription drug coverage. The spending framework also raises costs for people who join Medicare in 2017 and later for some services, and levies a surcharge on beneficiaries who buy comprehensive health insurance plans to supplement their Medicare coverage. "If we want to preserve the ironclad guarantee that Medicare represents, then we're going to have to make some change but they don't have to be drastic ones," Obama said Wednesday when he introduced his budget for fiscal year 2014, which begins on Oct. 1. "They are reforms that keep the promise we've made to our seniors: basic security that is rock-solid and dependable and there for you when you need it." Wealthier Medicare beneficiaries would pay higher premiums for Medicare Part B , which covers physician visits and other outpatient care, and Medicare Part D, the prescription-drug benefit, starting in 2017. That same year, everyone enrolled in Part B would face a higher deductible. People who join Medicare in 2017 or later, and buy supplemental health insurance that covers all or most of their Medicare deductibles and cost-sharing expenses would pay extra for Medicare Part B. According to White House est
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The ‘Hard-To-Change’ Legacy Of Medicare Payments
Apr 9th
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Source: www.kaiserhealthnews.org – Tuesday, April 09, 2013
Obama's Budget Expected To Call For Medicare Cuts
The ‘Hard-To-Change’ Legacy Of Medicare Payments
Paul Ryan Offers Austerity Budget, Claims His Critics Are Trying To Destroy Medicare
Mar 12th
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Source: online.wsj.com – Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Paul Ryan: The GOP Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023
Paul Ryan Offers Austerity Budget, Claims His Critics Are Trying To Destroy Medicare
No ruckus about Medicare cuts in sequester
Mar 1st
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Source: www.denverpost.com – Wednesday, February 27, 2013
WASHINGTON—Hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers are on the hook for a 2 percent cut under looming government spending reductions.
With Election Over, Obama Announces Medicare Cuts to Fund ObamaCare
Feb 21st
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Source: www.breitbart.com – Wednesday, February 20, 2013
During the 2012 election campaign, Democrats denied that ObamaCare made $ 716 billion in cuts to Medicare in order to provide funding toward $ 1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years. In an announcement on Friday, however, the Obama administration revealed that it would be significantly reducing funding for Medicare, a move that one health insurance analyst said “would turn almost every plan in the industry unprofitable.” Health insurance stocks tumbled following the announcement that a big chunk of the Medicare cuts would come from the popular Medicare Advantage program, a market-oriented system in which participants can choose coverage by a private company that contracts with Medicare to provide all Part A and Part B benefits. According to health care analyst Carl McDonald, the new rates proposed by the Obama administration will have the net effect of reducing payments to Medicare Advantage plans by seven to eight percent in 2014. McDonald projects: If implemented, these rates and the program changes CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] is suggesting would be enormously disruptive to Medicare Advantage, likely forcing a number of smaller plans out of the business and creating disarray for many seniors. According to Richard Foster, former chief actuary to the Medicare program, ObamaCare’s cuts to Medicare Advantage will likely force half of its current participants back into the old Medicare p
With Election Over, Obama Announces Medicare Cuts to Fund ObamaCare
Lindsey Graham says Obama needs to ‘man up’ on Medicare cuts
Dec 11th
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Source: pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com – Monday, December 10, 2012
“Man up.” Run with that. Sometimes the jokes just tell themselves…from the closet. Think Progress : Appearing on Fox News, Graham put forward an argument that is quickly becoming Republican conventional wisdom: Obama has leverage when it comes to raising tax rates, but once Republicans agree to some sort of a deal, the power will shift to the GOP. GRAHAM: In February or March you have to raise the debt ceiling. And I can tell you this, there is a hardening on the Republican side. We’re not going to raise the debt ceiling. We’re not going to let Obama borrow any more money or any American Congress borrow any more money until we fix this country from becoming Greece. That requires significant entitlement reform to save Social Security from bankruptcy and Medicare from bankruptcy. Social Security is going bankrupt in about 20, 25 years. Medicare is going bankrupt in 15 or 20 years. [...] Yes, we will play that game, Mr. President, because it’s not a game. The game you’re playing is small ball. You’re talking about raising rates on the top 2% that would run the government for 11 days. You just got reelected. How about doing something big that is not liberal? How about doing something big that really is bipartisan? Every big idea he has is a liberal idea that drowns us in debt. How about maning up here, Mr. President and use your mandate to bring this country together to stop us from becoming Greece.
Lindsey Graham says Obama needs to ‘man up’ on Medicare cuts
Vice Presidential Candidates Spar Over Medicare
Oct 13th
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Source: www.npr.org – Friday, October 12, 2012
Democrats Revive Medicare As Political Weapon
Vice Presidential Candidates Spar Over Medicare
Romney Didn’t Tell the Truth About Medicare
Oct 5th
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Source: forums.somd.com – Friday, October 05, 2012
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