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From Talking Points Memo: Tea Party activists in Washington, D.C. Jon Terbush | April 20, 2011, 3:05PM Tea Partiers may say the government is too damn big, but when it comes to at least two federal entitlement programs, they sing a wholly different tune. In a McClatchy-Marist poll released this week, 70% of registered voters…
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…
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,…
By David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star
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…
…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 —…
From Mother Jones: By Suzy Khimm | Wed Jan. 19, 2011 3:00 AM PST As Republicans seek to repeal health care reform, they have assaulted “Obamacare” as a job-killing, freedom-crushing behemoth that’s pushed the country onto the path to socialism. In order to defend their landmark legislative achievement, Democrats, meanwhile, have tried to highlight the…
9 Ways The New Law May Affect You in 2011 By Kaiser Health News Staff Jan 03, 2011 Opponents of the new health care overhaul law are threatening to repeal, defund and kill it in court, but that isn’t stopping Washington from implementing a number of important provisions in 2011. While many people will welcome…
From The San Jose Mercury News: ‘Death panels’ are back, and that’s good news (Mercury News Editorial) Welcome back, death panels. Really. The ugly rumor last year that President Barack Obama favored government-sponsored “death panels” to decide which patients were worthy of living was a twisted, cynical campaign designed to simultaneously kill health care reform…
From Politico: Death knell for ‘death panel’ debate? By: Brett Coughlin December 28, 2010 05:15 PM EST The debate over “death panels” is hard to kill — but at least one Senate Democratic aide says the issue has now become “Kryptonite for the Right,” thanks to the way a new Medicare regulation is written. The new…
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