The bottom line: Medicare and Medicaid are not in crisis. They don’t demand immediate fixes. No more than they have since at least 1990 when projections of Medicare’s looming insolvency have been wrong every single year.
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CBO Cuts Medicare and Medicaid projection spending by almost One Trillion Dollars…
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on May 21, 2013
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Senate Immigration Bill would encourage Hiring of Immigrants Over U.S. Citizens
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on May 17, 2013
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The current draft of the Senate’s immigration overhaul appears to give some employers a $3,000-a-year incentive to hire a newly legalized immigrant rather than an American citizen in order to avoid the new employer mandates in the health care law.
Share on FacebookDemocrats in Virginia go after Ken Cuccinelli on abortion
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on May 15, 2013
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The move to target Cuccinelli’s views on abortion comes a few days before the state attorney general addresses the Virginia GOP convention this weekend, and as Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe works to peel away moderate-leaning voters from the Republican coalition.
Share on FacebookHarry Reid thinks the Republicans have ‘lost theur minds’ on trying a Healthcare Law repeal….
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on May 15, 2013
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“For 37th time they’re voting to repeal a landmark, constitutional healthcare law, known as ObamaCare,” Reid said. “The House will waste yet another week on a dead end repeal vote. Perhaps they think the 37th time is the charm.”
Share on FacebookHHS Sec Sebelius goes out raising private money to finally sell the Affordable Healthcare Law
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on May 13, 2013
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Federal regulations do not allow department officials to fundraise in their professional capacity. They do, however, allow Cabinet members to solicit donations as private citizens….
Share on FacebookAfter the lights go out for NFL players who pays for the crutches?
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on May 10, 2013
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“First and foremost, the NFL is in the hurt business,” said Mel Owens, a former NFL player who is now a California attorney and represents Williams. “In workers’ comp they will end up paying for the players’ brains, hearts and livers, as well as orthopedic injuries, and it’s expensive. But they don’t want to pay at all.”
Share on FacebookBoehner and McConnell won’t lend help in setting up Healthcare Board…
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on May 9, 2013
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Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., notified the president today that they will not participate in one of the more controversial parts of the health care law, known as Obamacare.
Share on FacebookHospital Prices revealed…They are ALL over the place….
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on May 8, 2013
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Even within the same metropolitan area, hospitals charge prices that differ by staggering degrees for the same procedures. People without health insurance pay vastly higher costs for care when less expensive options are often available nearby. Virtually everyone who seeks health care winds up paying inflated prices in one form or another as these stark disparities in price sow inefficiencies throughout the market.
Share on FacebookThe Affordbale Healthcare Law changes will effect only a small group of Americans….
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on April 30, 2013
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“Implementation won’t much affect the 78 percent of Americans currently covered through Medicaid, Medicare, or employer group health plans. It will make some people who currently buy individual coverage worse off. But only 5 percent of Americans get insurance through the individual market, which is already hugely dysfunctional.”
Share on FacebookThe President complains about new State Abortion Restrictive Laws to Planned Parenthood Gathering…
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on April 26, 2013
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As the Federal Law holds in place , Republicans are increasingly taking their action in abortion, gun control and other issues on a state level where they have GOP Governors and majorities in state legislators….And they can therefore LIMIT certain policies and cut revenue to those supporting or providing services under those policies…..
Share on FacebookMore trauma centers and emergency departments are closing and that’s Not Good….
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on April 26, 2013
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Trauma centers are expensive to run; they depend on public funding (such as Medicare reimbursements) and face financial pressures from HMOs to specialize in more profitable services.
Share on FacebookDemocrats jumpy about Obamacare?…Erick Erickson@Red State
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on April 26, 2013
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The President and his White House gets blame from this Dog for NOT going out and selling the Law….
Period….
Share on FacebookHouse Majority Ledaer Cantor gets a Conservative beat down on preexisting health insurance try…
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on April 25, 2013
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Republican leaders had scheduled a vote in the chamber for Wednesday on a plan to help people with preexisting health problems get insurance — part of a broader scheme by Majority Leader Eric Cantor(Va.) to make Republicans appear to care about the little guy. But the conservatives lunching in the Rayburn House Office Building weren’t biting.
Share on FacebookShhhhh!…..Congress is working to Exempt itself from Obamacare health exchanges…..
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on April 25, 2013
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Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.
Share on FacebookThe Part of Obama care the Republicans like….
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on April 18, 2013
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The Hill reports that House Republicans “are moving quickly on a new bill to strengthen… the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Plan (PCIP), a struggling program designed to offer insurance to vulnerable patients while the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented.”
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