A couple of weeks ago I did a post on Newt being called into Congress in 2003 to persuade lobby members of the House GOP to support the Medicare prescription drug benefit. Now some Republican members who were there are saying that he did lobby the Congress: Gingrich, who is running for president, has said […]
In 2003 Congress passed the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which later became known as Medicare Part D. Remember that? A lot of wonks point to it as a critical piece of legislation that helped Bush win his re-election in 2004. Of course the law didn’t go into effect until 2006 and for […]
David Frum has a very lengthy piece in the New York Magazine in which he asks “When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?”. One part that really stuck out at me was this: It was not so long ago that Texas governor Bush denounced attempts to cut the earned-income tax credit as “balancing the […]
No I am not talking about a sweet treat of a doughnut hole. This doughnut hole is part of the Medicare changes and is actually one that is really hitting seniors hard. It is a loophole in the new Medicare coverage that many seniors were not aware of, but are quickly finding out about. Here […]
I first mentioned the problems of the new Medicare program in a post yesterday. I was using it as an example of how Democrats can use that to try and swing some of the critical senior votes. The problem was that the snags the new Medicare program has been encountering this past week have not […]