Asclepios Your Weekly Medicare Consumer Advocacy Update July 16, 2009 • Volume 9, Issue 28 Health reform legislation introduced in the House of Representatives this past Tuesday will expand health care coverage to an estimated 97 percent of all Americans. People with Medicare will benefit from a number of provisions in the bill that will increase [...]
Archive for July 16th, 2009
16 Jul
CONGRESS’ PLAN MEANS MEDICARE ‘DOUGHNUT HOLE’ MIGHT REMAIN UNTIL 2021
By Bob Graham Posted: July 15, 2009 IFAwebnews.com The so-called doughnut hole that many Medicare Part D beneficiaries are finding themselves in with prescription drug coverage isn’t going to disappear for at least 12 years under a current proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives. Most of today’s 65-year-old beneficiaries will be 79 when the coverage gap [...]
16 Jul
House Health Care Bill Demolishes Right-Wing Lies
Campaigne for America’s Future Progressive Breakfast: By Bill Scher July 15, 2009 – 10:19am ET Cost-Saving Public Plan In House Bill The Hill on timing for legislation: “Three House committees will begin marking up their legislation before the end of the week, setting up what would be a historic vote on President Obama’s signature domestic [...]
16 Jul
The Stench Of Conservative Desperation
thinkprogress.org SUPREME COURT The Stench Of Conservative Desperation Judge Sonia Sotomayor is well-qualified to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, with more federal judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in 100 years. Her loyalty to settled law is, in the words of the Congressional Research Service, “the most consistent characteristic of Sotomayor’s approach as an appellate judge.” [...]
16 Jul
NO COST OF LIVING RAISE? IT’S AN OUTRAGE
Gray Matters By Saul Friedman Newsday (MCT) Posted on Tue, Jul. 14, 2009 Here is a sample of the outrage over word that, for the first time, there won’t be a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), a raise, in Social Security benefits for the next two years – January 2010 and 2011 – because the cost of [...]
16 Jul
EDITORIAL: COPY THE MEDICARE MODEL
Palm Beach Post Editorial Sunday, July 12, 2009 Republicans are using scare tactics to derail President Obama’s attempt to include public insurance as an option in the health care reform bill he wants Congress to deliver this fall. It’s “socialized medicine,” they claim, and “government-run health care.” Opponents also pit the insured against the uninsured, [...]
