Senate rejects GOP's (Paul Ryan's) Medicare plan

Senate rejects GOP's (Paul Ryan's) Medicare plan... Five Republicans joined their Democrats in opposing the plan..Four Republicans who voted against the Ryan budget -- Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine -- have a history of bucking their party. Tea Party favorite Rand Paul of Kentucky was the fifth GOP senator to oppose the Ryan budget. He said he would vote "no" because he didn't believe the plan had enough spending cuts.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/05/medicare-gop-budget-senate-vote-harry-reid-/1

Obama scheme for health care quality dealt a setback

Obama scheme for health care quality dealt a setback...Obama's main idea for getting quality health care at less cost was in jeopardy Wednesday after key medical providers called his administration's initial blueprint so complex it's unworkable. -- Just over a month ago, the administration released long-awaited draft regulations for "accountable care organizations," networks of doctors and hospitals that would collaborate to keep Medicare patients healthier

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110511/ap_on_he_me/us_health_care_setback

NJ Gov. Christie: Obamacare’s Medicaid Mandates Are ‘Drowning’ States

NJ Gov. Christie: Obamacare’s Medicaid Mandates Are ‘Drowning’ States...Beginning in 2014, the health care law requires states to cover every individual under Medicaid whose income is equivalent to 133 percent of the poverty level or less..“The big problem we have with entitlements is not Social Security, it's Medicare. Medicare and Medicaid, the two health care programs that the federal government helps support, those are the things that are really breaking the bank,” he said. (Christie refused to sing on and join other states against Obamacare!)

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/christie-obamacare-s-medicaid-mandates-a

Medicare -- biggest gov't money pit

Medicare -- biggest gov't money pit..we're looking at about $90 trillion in unfunded liability in this program going forward."..This year, Social Security will run about a $57 billion deficit..if the government were to confiscate every penny owned by every millionaire in America, it "wouldn't make a dent" in the amount of debt the country faces. The solution has to be to reduce spending!

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1326182

AARP to profit 1 Billion Dollars from Obamacare..The ACORN of Obamacare

AARP to profit 1 Billion Dollars from Obamacare..The ACORN of Obamacare...
Did AARP support the cuts of $200 Billion to Medicare Advantage because it stood to gain financially from sales of the coverage which they offer and/or endorse? We're talking about financial gains in the neighborhood of $166,000,000.00


http://redcounty.com/content/aarp-acorn-obamacare

Medicare rise could mean no Social Security COLA

Medicare rise could mean no Social Security COLA.. Millions of retired and disabled people in the United States had better brace for another year with no increase in Social Security payments.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2011-03-27-medicare-social-security_N.htm

Democrats Tell Obama They're Ready to Bail on nomination of Donald Berwick/Medicare-Medicaid Head

Democrats Tell Obama They're Ready to Bail on nomination of Donald Berwick to continue as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
42 Republican senators sent a letter to Obama asking him to withdraw his nomination; Democrats say no way nomination could garner the 60 votes needed for confirmation by the Senate

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/6781-democrats-tell-obama-theyre-ready-to-bail-on-berwick