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• Feb 01 Americans are willing to pay more for Social Security Mark Miller, Reuters Very large majorities across every age group, political affiliation and income group said they would be willing to pay more to maintain current benefits.
• Jan 25 Six in ten Americans oppose any cuts to Medicare and Social Security Kaiser Family Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard School of Public Health New poll finds most Americans would not be willing to see any reductions in Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid.
• Dec 10 Raising the Medicare Eligibility Age Would Harm Seniors Maura Calsyn and Lindsay Rosenthal, Center for American Progress We estimate that in a single year, almost 435,000 seniors would be at risk of becoming uninsured.
• Oct 16 The Truth About Medicare Nancy Pelosi Special to CNN The Affordable Care Act does not cut a single benefit or add a single penny to the cost of insurance for any Medicare beneficiary.
• Sep 12 New Report on Harm to Medicare by Repealing Obamacare Repeal of the ACA would make Medicare's trust fund insolvent in 2016, and increase costs for many Medicare beneficiaries.
• Aug 28 Voucherizing Medicare Paul Krugman, New York Times The draft Republican platform says of Medicare and Medicaid….
• Aug 27 Preserving and Strengthening Medicare White House President Obama speaks about the critical need to strengthen and preserve Medicare for our seniors and future generations.
• Aug 24 How Much More Will the Romney-Ryan Medicare Plan Cost You? Center for American Progress Romney and Ryan claim that no one over 55 will be affected by their plan. This claim is false.
• Aug 23 Health Law Gives Medicare Fraud Fighters New Weapons Sarah Varney, NPR Fraud squads that look for Medicare scams have new weapons from Affordable Care Act.
• Aug 23 Patients Would Pay More if Romney Restores Medicare Savings, Analysts Say Jackie Calmes, New York Times Restoring the $716 billion in Medicare savings would increase premiums and co-payments for beneficiaries by $342 a year.
• Aug 14 The Romney-Ryan Medicare shuffle Bill Hammond, NY Daily News If political double-talk were an Olympic event, Mitt Romney would have scored a perfect 10 in…
• Aug 13 Paul Ryan isn’t a deficit hawk. He’s a conservative reformer. Ezra Klein, The Washington Post Take Ryan’s budget. It’s most famous for cutting entitlement programs, particularly Medicare.
• Jul 27 Want to Protect Medicare? Reduce Deficits in a Balanced Way Paul N. Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Reducing deficits almost entirely by cutting programs, with little or no new revenues, would likely require deep cuts in Medicare…
• Jul 25 Doughnut hole drug savings hit $687M in 1st half Kelly Kennedy, USA TODAY In the first six months of this year, more than 1 million seniors and people with disabilities saved $687 million on prescription drugs...
• Jul 24 Medicare Works The Commonwealth Fund Medicare does better than private coverage when it comes to fulfilling the main purposes of health insurance—providing access to care and adequate financial protection…
• Jul 20 Your Guide to "Ending Medicare As We Know It" Paul Waldman, The American Prospect If the Ryan plan were enacted, there would likely be many seniors who would have no health coverage.
• Jul 20 In Florida, Obama Presents Romney as Bad Choice for Seniors Peter Baker, New York Times Mr. Obama assailed Republican plans to transform Medicare into a voucher program.
• Jul 10 Over 16 million people on Medicare get free preventive services Department of Health and Human Services The new health care law means over 16 million people with original Medicare got services at no cost …
• Jul 10 Obamacare Is Good for Medicare Center for American Progress Obamacare actually improves the program for Medicare beneficiaries.
• Jul 06 Medicare Premiums: the Rumors Return Wall Street Journal Blog The Supreme Court’s decision upholding much of the Affordable Care Act last week breathed new life into an unfounded rumor…
• Jun 28 Medicare helps Beneficiaries Save $3.7 billion on Rx Thanks to health care reform 5.2 million people on Medicare saved $3.5 billion on their prescription drugs.
• May 31 Promoting Primary Care Can Help Reduce Medicare Costs The Commonwealth Fund According to a recent study, the Affordable Care Act’s boost in payments to primary care providers will yield a sixfold decrease in inpatient hospital and other post-acute care costs.
• May 08 Social Security: It’s for young people, too National Academy of Social Insurance The truth is that we can be confident in Social Security’s future.
• May 03 Medicare disruptions seen if health law is struck Associated Press Tossing out President Barack Obama's health care law would have major unintended consequences for Medicare's payment systems.
• Apr 23 A nugget of good Medicare news Sarah Kliff, Washington Post Medicare trustees' report shows trust fund will be able to cover its bills through 2024
• Apr 09 USA Today Editorial: Medicare Cost Panel is Common Sense USA Today The Medicare board seems like a common-sense mechanism. The reason it engenders such heated opposition is that like the "death panels," it's a convenient vehicle for scaring people into opposing health reform — facts to the contrary.
• Feb 28 $350 Million Home Health Care Scam Busted Sari Horwitz, Washington Post Texas doctor arrested for allegedly preying on the elderly and disadvantaged to bilk Medicare.
• Jul 10 Labor angered by Obama's willingness to cut Social Security in debt ceiling deal Kevin Bogardus, The Hill “I think this is a huge political mistake,” said AFSCME legislative director Chuck Loveless.
• Jun 22 Medicare trustees criticize Ryan plan Sam Baker, The Hill Criticism targets two key components of Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) plan to overhaul the program.
• May 13 Medicare Trust Fund Boosted By Health Care Reform: Report Ryan Grim, Huffington Post The Medicare trust fund will last eight years longer than it would have without the passage of last year's health care law, the program’s trustees announced Friday.
• Apr 20 Poll shows Americans oppose entitlement cuts to deal with debt problem Jon Cohen and Dan Balz, The Washington Post Despite growing concerns about the country’s long-term fiscal problems and an intensifying debate in Washington about how to deal with them, Americans strongly oppose some of the major remedies under consideration, according to a recent poll.
• Apr 12 Countering the Siege New York Times AFSCME President McEntee on how attacks on public service workers have energized union members and our allies in a growing battle over workers’ rights.
• Jul 22 Republicans Block Workers’ Rights, Social Security, Mine Safety Bills Mike Hall, AFL-CIO Now Blog