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• Best Answer Yet to Cost Control Cynics

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Youve heard the argument before: Promises of controlling costs in health care reform are not credible because Congress wont follow through on its promises. In other words, Congress may pass a law that calls for reducing what the government (through Medicare) pays various sectors in the health care industry. But ...
  2 hours ago

• Dump Bernanke

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 575
  By Creature Like many on the Internets I was ambivalent towards Bernanke getting another whirl as Fed chief. Being in charge and ignoring the mess Wall Street was making leading up to the crash should have been enough to disqualify him. On the other hand, the actions taken to prevent a collapse have been bold ...
  3 hours ago

• National priorities

  
  Smart Remarks — Authority: 143
  Nice that we can find so much money for the financial industry but not, you know, for the actual citizens of this country : Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) sympathized with Bernanke, saying that, because of entitlement spending, “you’re going to be looking at a situation where the Congress will be unable to provide ...
  4 hours ago

• Oh Look, Medicare Is Getting Drastically Cut

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 148
  By the Democrats . And McCain voted against the cuts . How much of the senior vote went to the Dems because Seniors were afraid of precisely the opposite? Won’t it be great when the same thing is happening to health care for the rest of the country, as well? Posted in Democrats Tagged: Congress, Medicare
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• When they quote costs, what do they do with this?

  
  Collecting My Thoughts — Authority: 441
  Heres a scan of my flu shot "This is not a bill" notice. Does the government say it paid $45 per person or do they use the $31 figure? For several million seniors, that might make a huge difference. And if Id paid cash, it would have been $25.00. So is this just monopoly money?
  5 hours ago

• Bernankes Conservative Message

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  My colleague Noam Scheiber has parsed Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s testimony about the power of the Federal Reserve, but Bernanke also commented in hearings yesterday about government fiscal policy; and what he had to say was, to say the least, disturbing. Echoing the charges of economic conservatives ...
  6 hours ago

• Senate votes to keep Medicare cuts (Democrats and AARP vote to pull the plug on grandma)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The Senate voted Thursday to keep nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts in its overhaul of the health care system, protecting the bills major source of financing against a Republican attack. On a vote of 58 to 42, the Senate rejected a proposal by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to send the bill back to committee with ...
  6 hours ago

• Senate votes down GOP plan to strip Medicare cuts from health-care bill

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 961
  Senate Republicans lost their first major challenge to a Democratic plan to overhaul the health-care system, as the chamber voted Thursday to reject a GOP proposal to strip the package of nearly $500 billion in Medicare cuts, its most important source of financing.
  13 hours ago

• The GOPs Obstruction Manual

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Yesterday, Judd Gregg sent around a memo to his Republican colleagues detailing the procedural tactics they have at their disposal to hold up the health-care bill on the Senate floor. Sam Stein sums up some of the measures that Gregg describes as being at the foundation “the minority party’s rights” in the ...
  13 hours ago

• Bernie Sanders announces his single payer amendment

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  From the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders [ via PNHP ] Summary : This amendment would establish a single payer health insurance system that would cover every person legally residing in the United States. The single payer system would be regulated and funded by the federal government through a payroll tax and an income ...
  14 hours ago

• Senate Rejects McCain Amendment to Limit Medicare Payment Reductions

  
  Medicare Update — Authority: 133
  On December 3, 2009, the U.S. Senate voted 42-58 to reject an amendment by Senator John McCain .  The McCain amendment would have sent the Senate Democrats health care reform legislation back to the Senate Finance Committee with instructions to report the bill back tothe U.S. Senate without approximately $440 ...
  14 hours ago

• What Makes Deficit Reduction “Undemocratic”?

  
  EconomistMom.com — Authority: 421
  A group of over 30 national, “progressive” organizations released this statement (and sent to the President, key Administration officials, and every member of Congress) on Wednesday, decrying the idea of a bipartisan deficit-reduction commission as “undemocratic.”  Why?  From the statement (emphasis ...
  14 hours ago

• Old people get to live! Senate OKs amendment protecting Medicare benefits

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 674
  By GottaLaff I can just imagine the Death Panelists lining up for a seat at the table. Im all a-dither! A Democratic amendment to the Senate health-care bill that seeks to protect Medicare benefits passed on a unanimous vote on Thursday. The amendment by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., states that the ...
  14 hours ago

• Dems Want Granny To Croak

  
  An Ol' Broad's Ramblings — Authority: 531
  Well? How else can you explain this: Democrats win $400B in Medicare cuts In the first showdown over the Senate health care bill, Democrats on Thursday successfully defended more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts, turning back a potentially lethal stab at the measure. On a 58-42 vote, the Senate defeated ...
  14 hours ago

• Entitlements and how they affect the Budget Deficit

  
  The Contemporary Conservative — Authority: 448
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  15 hours ago

• Democrat Senator Acknowledges Health Bill Breaks Obama Promises

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  A few Democrats are seeing the light: Democrats, having defeated a Republican attempt to block proposed Medicare cuts, now face an even bigger headache: concern among members of their own party over the program’s future funding. President Barack Obama wants to cut spending on the federal insurance plan for the ...
  15 hours ago

• Crusading Professor Challenges Dartmouth Atlas On Claims Of Wasteful Health Care Spending

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  The Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission , (2) taxing high-cost private insurance , (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction. Each of these cornerstones has serious potential to reduce our health coverage, while the ...
  16 hours ago

• Censoring Reality

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Remember the odd response to the devastatingly large mass of people who showed up at the tea party tax demonstration in Washington D.C.? All of these people…the White House dismissed when Gibbs scoffed “we don’t know who those people were…” The tea party protesters have garnered enough attention to be ...
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• Sen. McCain Medicare Amendment Fails

  
  The Future of Aging Blog — Authority: 124
  The Senate voted 58 to 42 today to defeat an amendment introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) that would have sent the bill back to the Senate Finance Committee to remove the more than $400 billion in Medicare cuts and find a new way to finance the measure.A number of senior-advocacy groups, including AARP, the [...]
  16 hours ago

• Health bill survives first big test — on Medicare (AP)

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
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