Paul Ryan’s plan to overhaul Medicare is really creating a controversy in Congress lately. This obviously contributed to yesterdays defeat of a Republican House candidate in New York’s special election. Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich spoke at Derry Medical Center in New Hampshire today and delivered an entire speech on healthcare without even mentioning the overhaul [...]
Analysts are saying that limiting the spending growth for Medicare in the US healthcare arena is in general much needed to cut future deficits and debts. Deficit reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden have recently focused in part on Medicare. Options in reducing Medicare spendings are as follows: Privatize the Program… Republicans in [...]
Medicare is emerging as a defining issue of the 2012 campaign. Tim Pawlenty has a proposal of system overhaul that offers more choices? “My plan will include a series of options that people can choose from, one of which will be to stay in the current program,” the former Minnesota governor told reporters after a [...]
Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler took some hits and booing at a two-hour town hall meeting with about 500 constituents Monday night at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington The crowd seemed sharply divided between her allies and her opponents, Herrera Beutler explained the budget plan offered by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, for [...]
As the U.S. Congress works to cut the deficit, everything must be considered, including Medicare, Social Security and entitlements, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi told CNBC Monday. “All the money is fungible, and at the end of the day the deficit has to be lowered,” the California Democrat said the day the $14.3 trillion debt [...]
A recent TV ad that Jane L. Corwin released Monday, Kathleen C. Hochul is the congressional candidate who wants to cut Medicare and Social Security msut be bogus. After viewing the ad, an independent fact-checking organization and a leading defender of the programs said, “DO NOT BELIEVE THIS.” The ad’s central claim is “bogus,” said [...]
Chicago and Wisconsin residents are going against Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan to cut Medicare and Medicaid benefits in the near future. 225 senior citizens, disabled residents and citizens from organizations within the communities have gathered outside the Economic Club in Chicago on May 16 while Ryan presented the new plan that he has named “a [...]
US Republican Mike Simpson asks constituents if they think that budget cuts are a threat to the nations security. When he asked this, every hand went up. Naturally the same thing happens when the question is asked does the government need to spend less money. Ultimately Mike Simpson believes that if the “Right” thing isn’t [...]
Princeton, NJ – 67% of Americans fear that the Social Security and Medicare crisis cost cuts are only troubling America more. A majority of Americans believe that the new programs being created will only create more of a crisis where very few see that the new programs will not hurt us in the future. A [...]
Most adults become eligible for Medicare on their 65th birthday. Whether you collect Social Security benefits prior to turning 65 years old will determine how you will go about setting up your Medicare Benefits. The type of coverage you will select and when you sign up will depend on this. If you have indeed started [...]
Gingrich speech in Derry New Hampshire
Options in the Medicare Crisis…
Tim Pawlenty proposes Medicare changes?
Plan to privatize the Medicare Health Program for the elderly
Jaime Herrera Beutler gets booed at Town Hall Meeting
Debate Over Cutting the Deficit
