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Rep. Ryan Earns 2 Pinocchios In Touting His Medicare Plan

April 29, 2011

From The Washington Post: Posted at 06:00 AM ET, 04/29/2011 “There’s a lot of misinformation about what we are proposing and what we are not proposing. We’re saying: Save Medicare by reforming it for people who are 54 and below by working like a system just like members of Congress and federal employees have.” —…

Senate Leader: S.C. Cannot Sustain Medicaid Spending

April 28, 2011

The Associated Press April 27, 2011, 8:41AM ET By JIM DAVENPORT COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina’s soaring Medicaid program spending is siphoning money away from other state priorities such as school buses and needs to be kept in check, Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell said Tuesday. McConnell’s remarks came as the Senate opened debate on…

Coming To Columbia, 2 Days Only: Free Medical Services

April 20, 2011

August 5-6, 2011 Carolina Coliseum 701 Assembly Street, Columbia, 29201 (Google Map) 6:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. (Friday, August 5, 2011) 6:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Saturday, August 6, 2011) *Dental services will be provided for 36 hours continuously PURPOSE: The purpose of this two-day event is to provide health care services including medical, dental,…

House Passes Plan To Phase Out Medicare, Slash Medicaid

April 15, 2011

From Talking Points Memo: Brian Beutler | April 15, 2011, 2:23PM House Republicans voted Friday in favor of a vision of the future without Medicare, with a significantly eroded Medicaid, and with lower taxes on wealthy Americans. By a vote of 235-193, they passed their budget resolution — an opening bid in a broader partisan…

If Ryan’s Medicare Plan Passes, Who Will Insure Seniors?

April 15, 2011

Congressman Paul Ryan From  Talking Points Memo: Benjy Sarlin | April 15, 2011, 11:00AM At first glance, Paul Ryan’s plan to send millions of seniors into the free market with dwindling vouchers in hand might seem a boon to the private insurance industry. But would companies even want to participate? Unlike the Affordable Care Act,…

Path To History?

April 13, 2011

By David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star

What Rep. Ryan’s Budget Proposal Would Inflict On Seniors

April 7, 2011

Wednesday, 06 April 2011 04:42 From Dean Baker’s blog Beat The Press at The Center for Budget and Policy Research: “Rep. Ryan Proposes Medicare Plan Under Which Seniors Would Pay Most of Their Income for Health Care” That is what headlines would look like if the United States had an independent press. After all, this…

Congressman Ryan’s Unicorn-borne Budget Proposal…

April 6, 2011

…that would screw seniors out of their Medicare and widen the national deficit. From Paul Krugman’s NYT blog, The Conscience of  a Liberal: April 6, 2011, 9:00 am By Paul Krugman Gosh. For a plan that supposedly sets a new standard of seriousness, Paul Ryan’s vision (pdf) depends an awful lot on unicorn sightings —…

Sorry, This Ain’t No April Fool’s…

April 1, 2011

Synopsis: According to Congressman Louie Gohmert and his Texas-sized tinfoil hat, U.S. intervention in Libya is actually an Obama plot to tucker out our military, thereby enabling Obama to call up his health-care-reform stormtroopers to impose Shariah, or some other fantastical atrocity, on us all. Nobody at S.C. Health Care Voices is calling the Affordable…

Tea Party Upends S.C. Insurance Exchange Bill

March 30, 2011

From The Spartanburg Herald-Journal: By Stephen Largen . State House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Cooper, R-Anderson, and seven other Republican state House members today removed their support from legislation that would create a state health insurance exchange. The legislation, created by state Rep. Harold Mitchell, D-Spartanburg, picked up sponsorship from about a dozen…

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