Senate Passes Change to Health Law
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress sent the White House its first rollback of the new health care law on Tuesday, a bipartisan repeal of a tax reporting requirement that was widely unpopular with businesses.
The Budget Battles: The Threat to Medicaid and Medicare
Representative Paul Ryan’s proposals to reform Medicare and Medicaid are mostly an effort to shift the burden to beneficiaries and the states. They have very little reform in them.
They certainly won’t solve the two most pressing problems in the nation’s health care system: the relentlessly rising cost of care and the shamefully high number of uninsured Americans — now hovering around 50 million. Mr. Ryan is also determined to repeal the new health care reform law. Never mind that the law would make real progress on both fronts, covering more than 30 million of the uninsured and pushing to make health care delivery more efficient and effective and less costly.
EDITORIAL
The Budget Battles: Republicans Maneuver Toward a Shutdown
Published: April 5, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/opinion/06wed1.html?hp
Generational Divide Colors Debate Over Medicare’s Future
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The Republican budget released on Tuesday is a daring one in many ways. Above all, it would replace the current Medicare with a system of private health insurance plans subsidized by the government. Whether you like or loathe that idea, it would undeniably reduce Medicare’s long-term funding gap — which is by far the biggest source of looming federal deficits.
Privatizing Medicare
By REED ABELSONAs part of their budget proposal, Republican lawmakers are now talking about replacing the Medicare program with a private system that would rely on commercial insurers to provide coverage to the elderly instead of the federal government.
Patrick urges action on health bill
Governor wants his cost curbs to be passed soon
Rep. Ryan’s proposed changes would be biggest yet for Medicare
When House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan announced his plan to redefine Medicare, as part of a broader Republican budget proposal, he did not sketch in all the details. But the outlines make clear that his ideas would represent the biggest change to the federal health insurance program for the elderly since its creation nearly five decades ago.
Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan Sounds Just Like Zeke Emanuel’s Voucher System
Paul Ryan is taking a lot of flack today for his party’s budget proposal, which cuts $4 trillion in spending over the next decade. One feature that’s drawn fire is his plan to swap future all-you-can-eat Medicare benefits for vouchers to buy a certain amount of insurance (see page 44). The Ryan plan would also include subsidies for lower-income beneficiaries to cover out-of-pocket expenses.
Rivlin: I don't back 'Ryan-Rivlin' plan
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) touted the help of former Clinton adviser Alice Rivlin — “a great, proud Democrat” — in promoting a key Medicare provision in his budget proposal Tuesday.
The only problem? Rivlin said she told the Republican she doesn’t support the final version of the measure he wrote into his budget — a provision Ryan referred to generally as the “Ryan-Rivlin” plan when rolling out his sweeping economic blueprint.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=43DE4A8D-BBBE-4F8D-BA4D-9DD1A6CBE2A5
Medicare's moment of truth
Hats off to the House budget resolution for including real Medicare reform. It is the only hope.
President Barack Obama has already abdicated his obligation to provide leadership. He mailed in a budget devoid of serious remedies for the nation’s ailments. And nobody expects the Democratic leadership in the Senate to step up.
This sad situation prevails despite the fact that the president’s own National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform calls this our national “Moment of Truth.”
“We cannot play games or put off hard choices any longer,” the panel argued. “Without regard to party, we have a patriotic duty to keep the promise of America to give our children and grandchildren a better life.”
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=2154DF0F-2917-453A-8CD1-0871B7711289
Holz-Eakin's assumptions about what the effects of "fixing" the amount of money in the medical care marketplace would probably be correct, if that is what Ryan's proposal did. Unfortunately, all the Ryan proposal does is to "fix" the amount of Federal money in the marketplace. Private spending could - and would - continue to rise, with more and more of the costs being shifted to beneficiaries, including those least able to afford them. We need an "Improved Medicare for All" approach implemented through an "American Health Care Card" that is required to be accepted as payment in full (except for nominal deductibles) for all Americans. That would limit the amount of money in the health care marketplace and begin to get costs under control.
Everybody in, nobody out!
SPC
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The Republican budget released on Tuesday is a daring one in many ways. Above all, it would replace the current Medicare with a system of private health insurance plans subsidized by the government. Whether you like or loathe that idea, it would undeniably reduce Medicare’s long-term funding gap — which is by far the biggest source of looming federal deficits.
Privatizing Medicare
By REED ABELSONAs part of their budget proposal, Republican lawmakers are now talking about replacing the Medicare program with a private system that would rely on commercial insurers to provide coverage to the elderly instead of the federal government.
Patrick urges action on health bill
Governor wants his cost curbs to be passed soon
Rep. Ryan’s proposed changes would be biggest yet for Medicare
When House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan announced his plan to redefine Medicare, as part of a broader Republican budget proposal, he did not sketch in all the details. But the outlines make clear that his ideas would represent the biggest change to the federal health insurance program for the elderly since its creation nearly five decades ago.
Paul Ryan’s Medicare Plan Sounds Just Like Zeke Emanuel’s Voucher System
Paul Ryan is taking a lot of flack today for his party’s budget proposal, which cuts $4 trillion in spending over the next decade. One feature that’s drawn fire is his plan to swap future all-you-can-eat Medicare benefits for vouchers to buy a certain amount of insurance (see page 44). The Ryan plan would also include subsidies for lower-income beneficiaries to cover out-of-pocket expenses.
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| Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) touted the help of former Clinton adviser Alice Rivlin — “a great, proud Democrat” — in promoting a key Medicare provision in his budget proposal Tuesday. The only problem? Rivlin said she told the Republican she doesn’t support the final version of the measure he wrote into his budget — a provision Ryan referred to generally as the “Ryan-Rivlin” plan when rolling out his sweeping economic blueprint. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=43DE4A8D-BBBE-4F8D-BA4D-9DD1A6CBE2A5
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