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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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Medicare stories: 75 news summaries

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(Newser) - RNC Chairman Michael Steele continued his simultaneous defense of and onslaught on Medicare today, writes Eric Kleefeld of Talking Points Memo. Dems are “proposing up to $550 billion in cuts or shifting of funds out of Medicare, and I don't know what that means,” Steele said on Fox... More »

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veterans • Medicare • health care reform • Obama administration • chairman • President Obama • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee

(Newser) - The RNC has joined the fracas over health care reform with a proposed “seniors’ bill of rights” that guards against Medicare cuts, ABC News reports. “Our seniors have really come under fire in the last few weeks,” says RNC chair Michael Steele—who backed Medicare cuts as... More »

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RNC • Medicare • Medicaid • Democratic National Committee • health care reform • DNC • seniors • Obama administration • President Obama • Michael Steele • Republican National Committee

(AP) - Millions of older people face shrinking Social Security checks next year, the first time in a generation that payments would not rise. The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won't be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next 2 years. That hasn't happened since automatic increases... More »

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health care • elderly • Medicare • Social Security

OPINION

 To Cure Health Care, 
 See This Doctor 

Mayo Clinic boss could be reform's 'Petraeus'

Aug 20, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - To fix health care, we need a commander like Gen. David Petraeus: “a professional who can break through the political chaff and describe a strategy for reform that can unite the country,” writes David Ignatius in the Washington Post. He nominates Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Denis Cortese, who’... More »

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health insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Mayo Clinic • David Ignatius • President Obama • Denis Cortese

(Newser) - Scan the ranks of health care reform malcontents at your local town hall, and you’ll notice a lot of older faces. With Democrats aiming their sales pitch mostly at middle-class Americans and the uninsured, seniors have come to fear that Medicare, their own beloved government-run health care, will face... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Medicare • AARP • health care reform • senior citizens • deathers

(Newser) - The mob-like scenes at recent town halls are "something new and ugly," writes Paul Krugman, who notes that 2005's protests against Social Security privatization never saw baying crowds and congressmen hanged in effigy. The New York Times columnist is unconvinced that the mobs are in the pay... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Medicare • health care reform • Paul Krugman • town hall meeting • racial tension • AstroTurf • birther

OPINION

Krugman, Noonan Agree: Just Build on Medicare

We already have a fine government option

Jul 31, 09 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Everyone's suddenly allergic to letting the government into health care, but Paul Krugman has news: The government is already knee-deep in health care, he writes in the New York Times. It's called Medicare, and without it almost no one over 65 would be covered. You can also thank tax... More »

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Medicare • FDR • health care reform • Paul Krugman • Peggy Noonan

ANALYSIS

 5 Barriers to Obamacare 


Jul 27, 09 12:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Both chambers of Congress will likely miss President Obama’s August deadline for a health care reform bill, slowing “the momentum behind the president's top priority,” Jay Newton-Small writes in Time. “Why can't a popular president with poll numbers in the 60s and super majorities in... More »

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Congress • health insurance • Medicare • Senate Republicans • health care reform • Obama administration • Blue Dog Democrats • President Obama

OPINION

Gingrich: Waxman Lets Health Care Fraud Flourish


Jul 24, 09 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - America’s health care system is riddled with so much fraud that eliminating it would pay for universal coverage, but Congress doesn’t seem to care, writes Newt Gingrich in the Washington Examiner. He singles out as his particular villain Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Henry Waxman • Medicare • House of Representatives • Medicaid • health care reform

OPINION

Krugman: Yes, We Can Afford Health Care 

Kennedy-helmed HELP committee delivers feasible, cheap plan

Jul 6, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Congressional Budget Office has spoken: We can afford universal health care. Sure, we should have known that all along, writes Paul Krugman of the New York Times. Every other advanced country has it and spends less than we do. But last week the notoriously tight-pursed CBO scored a... More »

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Senate • Medicare • health care reform • Paul Krugman

 Mississippi Still Porkiest, 
 but Alabama Closing In 

Obesity up in 23 states: report

Jul 1, 09 12:17 PM CDT
(AP) - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. It's time for the nation's annual obesity rankings and, outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news. Obesity rates among adults rose in 23 states over the past... More »

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obesity • baby boomer • obesity epidemic • Medicare • fat • Alabama • Mississippi • Colorado

(Newser) - Big Pharma has offered the feds a discount of up to $80 billion on drugs for programs like Medicare, the Washington Post reports. The pledge, which comes at a crucial moment in the health-reform debate, may be a pre-emptive strike before President Obama pushes for a proposed $100 billion... More »

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Congress • Medicare • drug companies • pharma • health care reform • discounts • Obama administration

Obama Seeks Another $313B in Health Cuts

He wants to reduce Medicare payments
to hospitals

Jun 13, 09 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - In an effort to pay for his ambitious health care plans, Barack Obama today proposed another $313 billion in cuts to government health care spending over the next decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. That brings the total cuts proposed to nearly $950 billion, just shy of the $1... More »

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Barack Obama • health care costs • hospitals • Medicare • drug companies • universal health care • Medicaid • health care reform

Docs' Group Opposes Public Health Insurance

Powerful AMA pushes against Obama,
Dem proposals

Jun 11, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Just as Republicans and Democrats head for a showdown on health care reform, the American Medical Association is telling Congress that it will oppose a government-sponsored insurance plan—a key, if the most controversial, piece of plans put forward by Dems with support from the White House. The AMA wants... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Barack Obama • health insurance • Medicare • physician • American Medical Association • doctors

(Newser) - Social Security and Medicare are headed toward disaster, and that’s a good thing, Robert J. Samuelson writes in Newsweek. The programs are expected to run out of money by 2017 and 2037, respectively, and when they do, politicians will have to make painful, necessary reforms. “The counterintuitive lesson:... More »

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health care • bankruptcy • Medicare • retirement • aging • Social Security • retirement benefits • politicians

OPINION

To Cut Deficit, Rein in Health Costs: Orszag

Budget director makes White House's case
for cutting expenses

May 15, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the future of Medicare and Social Security in the headlines, the Obama administration is jumping at the chance to push its health care reform agenda. Up today: budget director Peter Orszag. "Slower growth rate in overall health-care spending would help to promote and sustain a slowdown in... More »

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health care costs • Medicare • budget • Medicaid • national debt • GDP • Obama administration • Peter Orszag • White House budget director

OPINION

Social Security Easily Fixed; Medicare Is Another 'Monster'

Worry about that, not easy-to-fix social security: Reich

May 13, 09 4:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - After yesterday’s news that Social Security and Medicare funds will run out of money earlier than previously predicted, it’s the latter that should really scare us, former Labor secretary Robert Reich writes for Salon. A slight tax tweak fixes Social Security, but “Medicare is entirely different. It’... More »

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Medicare • health care industry • health care reform • Social Security • Social Security trustees • Robert Reich • President Obama

(Newser) - The recession has hurt the already-shaky finances of Medicare and Social Security, the Washington Post reports. Medicare is now projected to run out of money in 2017, two years earlier than the last projection. Social Security, meanwhile, is expected to be insolvent in 2037, four years earlier. The annual report... More »

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entitlement programs • Medicare • recession • Social Security • Social Security trustees • Jay-ZTV

OPINION

It's Time for 'The Talk' About Rationing Care

At end of life, openness reduces stress for all: Goodman

May 8, 09 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Two weeks before she died, Barack Obama’s terminally ill grandmother had a hip replacement. Obama said he’d have paid for the operation, but questioned whether society should have to. “I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues,” he said. But maybe morality and... More »

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Barack Obama • Medicare • living will • death • rationing • Madelyn Dunham • President Obama

OPINION

Obama's Secret Plan to Control Your Healthcare

President serves candy now, spinach later: Krauthammer

Apr 24, 09 1:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is going to need more than a “cash-cow carbon tax” to fund his goals of “nationalized health care” and “federalized education,” writes Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post. Obama’s going to have to slash Social Security and Medicare. But his current health... More »

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Barack Obama • entitlement programs • Medicare • universal health care • Medicaid • Charles Krauthammer

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