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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with Medicare

We Need Health Care, Not Insurance What Real Health Reform Looks Like
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare, healthcare, congress, Medicare For All, medicare )

Jill
- 6 days ago - counterpunch.com
A very complex, mandatory private insurance scheme recently passed the U.S. House. The public is being overwhelmed by sound bites on one hand about how great it is, on the other, how terrible. We are hearing few of the details that are actually in the bil
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Paul Krugman - The Politics of Spite
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: republicans, conservatives, radicals, Reagan, americans, politics, government, corruption, abuse, lies, dishonesty, economy, freedoms, healthcare, obama, Medicare, insurance, rights, safety, society, culture )

Tom
- 50 days ago - nytimes.com
Conservative glee at America's rebuff by the Olympic Committee show that the guiding principle of Republicans is spite pure and simple. If they think something might be good for the president, they're against it -- whether or not it's good for America.
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Insurance Industry Whistleblower Wendell Potter Blasts Senate Panel Rejection of Public Insurance Option
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: healthcare, public option, SenateFinanceCommittee, Medicare, Baucus, Republicans, Obama, Faustian bargain, Big Pharma, Big Insurers, lobbyists, Wendell Potter, CenterforMedia'nDemocracy, NPR poll, Congress, MobilizationforHealthCare, sit-in, arrests )

Alba
- 54 days ago - democracynow.org
Potter: By no means final answer on this! Optimistic final bill will reach Pres's desk WITH public option. Connection to new poll results: public feels profoundly shut out of current overhaul debate - 71% say Congress not paying attention to us!
19 comments
I'Ve Changed My Mind About "Death Panels"
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Campaign promises, Current Affairs, Hoodwinking, Medicare, Obama's Broken Promises, President Barack Obama, Social Security, HR3200 )

Just
- 91 days ago - noquarterusa.net
I am stunned that the Obama administration has the nerve to refuse to give senior and disabled citizens a cost-of-living increase for the first time in a generation.This, coupled with the $500 billion cut to Medicare to finance Obama's proposed health...
47 comments
A Primer -- on the Details of Health Care Reform
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: USA, Health care reform, details of health care reform, Capitol Hill discussions, town hall discussions, Democrat legislative proposals, protesters, Medicare )

ON VACATI
- 107 days ago - nytimes.com
Here is a guide to the main fight points on health care reform - turning from Capitol Hill to town halls, supporters and critics of the Democrats' legislative proposals. Time to sort fact from fiction!
28 comments
Liberals: Hold Your Heads Up
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Liberals, Presidential Election of 2008, Democratic Party, GOP, Republicans, Social Security (US), Medicare, Welfare (US) )

Marion
- 441 days ago - nytimes.com
Ignorance must really be bliss. How else, over so many years, could the G.O.P. get away with ridiculing all things liberal?
39 comments
Experts Predict Medicare Fund Shortage
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: cover-up, crime, dishonesty, medicare, politics, republicans, lies, news, healthcare, socialsecurity, u.s., abuse )

Suzybell
- 608 days ago - webmd.com
March 25, 2008 -- Medicare's trust fund will spend more than it receives from taxes this year, a report warned Wednesday.The event marks the beginning of what Bush administration officials predict is the start of a slide toward possible bankruptcy for Med
3 comments
Struggles for National Health Care: JOHN F. KENNEDY at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN   video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Universal Health Care, JFKennedy, government, politics, medicare )

Blue
- 639 days ago - youtube.com
President Kennedy addressed a rally in a packed Madison Square Garden on May 20, 1962
3 comments
Medicare and Medicaid Cuts Threaten Families, Seniors, and Children
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Medicare, Medicaid, Families, Health Care )

Moondance
- 1022 days ago - americanprogress.org
The "number of Americans without health insurance has grown to an unfathomable level -- nearly 47 million." The Center for American Progress reports, "As health care costs have skyrocketed, employer-sponsored coverage has eroded
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