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| What Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age Means The American Prospect After a campaign in which Republicans attempted to pillory Barack Obama for finding $716 billion in savings from Medicare (via cuts in payments to insurance companies and providers but not cuts to benefits), those same Republicans now seem to be ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Four Bad Liberal Arguments For Raising the Medicare Age Huffington Post It's tempting to read these pieces by Matt Yglesias and Jonathan Chait and decide that, all things considered, liberals should at least consider raising the Medicare age to 67 as part of a budget compromise. They shouldn't. "This seems like a useful ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| NY doctor pleads guilty in $11.7M Medicare scheme San Francisco Chronicle They say Kim admitted that from March 2007 to October 2011, he conspired with others to persuade Medicare beneficiaries to allow their Medicare numbers be billed for medical services that were never performed. In exchange, prosecutors say they provided ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sanders opposes effort to raise age for Medicare Brattleboro Reformer MONTPELIER -- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday he'll oppose any effort to raise the age when people become eligible for Medicare health insurance coverage. Republicans in Congress have proposed raising the age when retirees are eligible for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cut Medicare? Cut Fraud! Huffington Post There is reason to believe that if the GOP will agree to raise the taxes on the super rich, President Obama will agree to cuts in Medicare. It is morally abhorrent to cut benefits to any current or future seniors before much greater efforts are made to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Graph of the day: Medicare age change matters most for minorities Washington Post (blog) Earlier Monday I wrote about some research suggesting that raising the Medicare age would disproportionately effect minorities. Owen Zidar at Berkeley flags some helpful graphs on the subject, which come from economists David Card, Carlos Dobkin and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Medicare costs set to rise in 2013 CBS News (MoneyWatch) The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced modest increases in 2013 premiums and deductibles for Medicare, as follows: - The monthly Medicare Part B premium for most retirees will increase by 5 percent, from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Five Medicare eligibility changes Washington Post (blog) The Medicare eligibility age is one entitlement policy on the table in a fiscal cliff deal. If it went through, the policy change would move about 5 million seniors out of the entitlement program and into the market that serves the non-elderly, with ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Raising Medicare eligibility ... By rss@dailykos.com (Meteor Blades) What we'd be doing is taking people off Medicare, the most efficient and inexpensive option for them to have insurance, and putting them into the individual market, which works less well and costs more. When we start talking about this in more ... Daily Kos | ||
| Prominent Queens Doctor Pleads Guilty To Medicare Fraud « CBS ... By Adam Harrington A Queens doctor who also serves as president of two medical clinics in Brooklyn pleaded guilty Monday to an $11.7 million Medicare fraud scheme. CBS New York | ||
| It's immoral to cut Medicare to pay for George Bush's lies By John Aravosis It's pretty ballsy of Republicans to ask us to give up two years of Medicare coverage to pay for their lies about Bush's tax cuts and the war in Iraq. AMERICAblog | ||
| Obama Sent Medicare Message First and Now Republicans Move to ... By Taylor Marsh IT DIDN'T surprise me that I'd come back from our festive holiday to find Medicare cuts being floated by the likes of Jonathan Chait, but especially Ezra Klein. If Klein is tagging it from the White House it's not just a trial balloon or a bargaining ... Taylor Marsh | ||
| Medicare Eligibility Age Increase Rejected By Obama Allies | FDL ... By David Dayen Staffers in this White House in particular float trial balloons on a continual basis on virtually every issue of importance to gauge public response, and. Firedoglake |
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| Listen Up, White House! Take Medicare Eligibility Age Off The Table ... Evidently Ezra Klein and Jonathan Chait have been dispatched to sell us on why it might be a great idea to go ahead and trade a higher Medicare eligibility age ... crooksandliars.com/.../listen-white-house-take-medicare-eligibi... |
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