Paul Ryan has admitted that his Medicare plan is nothing more than a mandate for seniors. This is from a townhall Ryan held in Racine, Wisconsin: Q: If Medicare becomes a voucher program, would you require seniors to purchase private insurance and if so isn’t that an individual mandate? If you will not require them […]
Barack Obama in 2007: “The growth in the cost of drugs has slowed in recent years, in part because of greater use of generic drugs. But given the price tag, and the financial challenges of our health care system, we can – and must – take additional steps to curb how much we are spending […]
Here’s Conrad’s latest: Kent Conrad is pushing to decouple this Medicare buy-in from Medicare. Conrad wants to make it fake Medicare. He wants people in this fake Medicare to pay much higher reimbursement rates. and be placed in a separate risk pool. The people in fake Medicare might not even be able to use the […]
That’s what The Hill is reporting: Say hello to “Medicare Part E” — as in, “Medicare for Everyone.” House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government healthcare program that is better known than the public option. The strategy could benefit Democrats struggling to bridge the gap between […]
With the new Medicare program reaching it’s first birthday, we are going to start hearing more stories like this: Ever since Judy Clifford’s parents died, she had planned to move with her husband into their Nashville, Tenn., home, which she knew so well. “I felt like they were still there,” says Ms. Clifford, who is […]
Of course Bush would take his weekly radio address to try and prop up his image on Katrina: Nearly one year after Hurricane Katrina created a humanitarian and political crisis, President George W. Bush said on Saturday the storm showed the government was unprepared to respond to a disaster of that magnitude and revealed “deep-seated […]
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 […]
Yesterday, I posted in Blue Ohio about an ad U.S. Chamber of Commerce ran for Steve Chabot, congressional candidate from Cincinnati. The ad credited Chabot with voting for the Medicare changes that took effect the first of the year. The ad was pulled off because Chabot actually voted against the bill. The same ad is […]
Tom Delay appeared this morning on Stephanopoulos and he has not lost his touch when it comes to lying. Besides accusing Democrats of being more corrupt than Republicans, he made one assertion that is a flat out lie. Rough Transcript: Delay: The Democrats are going back to their constituents and urging them not to sign […]
When the new Medicare drug plans went into effect first of the year, there was one program that was chopped. That program supplied free medication to the poor people. This of course made it so that the poor was now paying for drugs that they were one time receiving for free. Interesting enough was last […]