CBO: Social Security Trust Fund Solvent Through 2039

CBO: Social Security Trust Fund Solvent Through 2039: "pA new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reveals that the Social Security trust fund is actually in better shape than previously thought. The CBO had previously projected that the popular entitlement program was solvent until 2037. CBO now projects the trust fund won’t run out until 2039. In the ongoing battle over deficit [...]/p"

The Tea Party Is Coming For Your Medicare (Again)

The Tea Party Is Coming For Your Medicare (Again): "pIf It’s August, The Tea Party Wants To Take Away Your Health Care In August of 2009, the Tea Party tried to run the health care bill off the rails. Flash forward two years and the Tea Party is at it again, but this time they are dead set on pushing through the GOP’s spectacularly unpopular plan to [...]/p"

August Town Halls 2.0: Tea Party, Republicans Plan Renewed Push For Ryan’s Medicare Privatization Plan

August Town Halls 2.0: Tea Party, Republicans Plan Renewed Push For Ryan’s Medicare Privatization Plan: "pIn yet another sign that the debt ceiling negotiations have re-ignited conservatives’ fervor to privatize the Medicare program, Reuters is reporting that Tea Party activists are planning to descend on the town halls held by members of Congress while on recess this month to demand that the new super committee and future legislative proposals to [...]/p"
The Tea Party plans to yell and threaten at town hall meetings this month. They will be pushing Paul Ryan's Randian plan to destroy Medicare, privatize it and throw seniors to the insurance wolves.

US of Austerity: What $570 Billion Cuts Will Do to Our Water, Air, the Jobless, Children, the Elderly, and the Poor | Economy | AlterNet

US of Austerity: What $570 Billion Cuts Will Do to Our Water, Air, the Jobless, Children, the Elderly, and the Poor | Economy | AlterNet

Health Insurers Sacrifice Americans for Profit | Common Dreams

Health Insurers Sacrifice Americans for Profit | Common Dreams

Social Security Did Not Create The Deficit

Exactly!!!!!!

BREAKING: Eric Cantor Admits That $1 Trillion In War Savings Counted In Ryan Plan, ‘Cut, Cap & Balance’ Plan

BREAKING: Eric Cantor Admits That $1 Trillion In War Savings Counted In Ryan Plan, ‘Cut, Cap & Balance’ Plan: "pToday, Speaker John Boehner rejected Harry Reid’s plan, claiming that it was full of gimmicks. Boehner’s principle criticism was that it counted $1 trillion is savings from winding down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In a remarkable interview on CNBC, Majority Leader Eric Cantor admitted to Larry Kudlow that both the Ryan Plan and [...]/p"

Stuart Varney Affirms That Killing Medicare and Social Security Sole GOP Goal | Crooks and Liars

Stuart Varney Affirms That Killing Medicare and Social Security Sole GOP Goal | Crooks and Liars

Messing with Medicare | Common Dreams

Messing with Medicare | Common Dreams

Why Medicare Is the Solution — Not the Problem | Common Dreams

Why Medicare Is the Solution — Not the Problem | Common Dreams

The Case For Preserving CLASS

The Case For Preserving CLASS: "pOur guest bloggers are Judy Feder, Urban Institute Fellow and Professor and former Dean, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Harriet Komisar, Research Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, and Paul Vandewater, Senior Fellow, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities With most of the focus on the Affordable Care Act’s impact on health insurance coverage, little attention has [...]/p"

DNC Chair On Republicans Plan To Kill Medicare And Social Security

Steve King would rather cut Social Security than raise the debt limit

Steve King would rather cut Social Security than raise the debt limit

Rick Perry Signs A Mini-Ryan Health Bill

Rick Perry Signs A Mini-Ryan Health Bill: "pGov. Rick Perry (R-TX) is transforming Texas into a Paul Ryanian Mecca, having just signed legislation that seeks to privatize Medicare and compels the state to formally ask for a Medicaid block grant. The measure also “defunds abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood” and “implements co-payments for non-emergency visits to hospital emergency rooms.”/p"

Maine Governor Proposes Throwing 30,000 Off Medicaid: ‘We Should Not Be More Generous Than Other States’

Maine Governor Proposes Throwing 30,000 Off Medicaid: ‘We Should Not Be More Generous Than Other States’: "pMaine Governor Paul LePage (R) — a vocal opponent of the Affordable Care Act — is proposing reforming MaineCare, the state’s Medicaid program, by reducing eligibility to the level in place in most states, thereby throwing off some 30,000 Mainers off the rolls. “This is what the level is in 47 other states,” LePage said [...]/p"

Van Hollen: GOP wants constitutional amendment to end Medicare | Video Cafe

Van Hollen: GOP wants constitutional amendment to end Medicare | Video Cafe

Cantor's secret memo for $350 billion in Medicare, Medicaid cuts

Cantor's secret memo for $350 billion in Medicare, Medicaid cuts

Cantor Proposes Cutting $353 Billion From Medicare And Medicaid

Cantor Proposes Cutting $353 Billion From Medicare And Medicaid: "pHouse Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has proposed $353 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, which he suggested in the deficit reduction talks yesterday at the White House. Cantor’s plan would cut $100 billion in matching payments to states for Medicaid, and save $109 billion by increasing co-payments, reducing home health payments, and prohibiting [...]/p"

10 Reasons Why Everyday Americans Need Medicaid And How The Republican Budget Undermines Them

10 Reasons Why Everyday Americans Need Medicaid And How The Republican Budget Undermines Them: "pFrom CAP’s Scott Lilly, Melissa Boteach, Katie Wright: 1) States would have to spend $266 billion more on Medicaid from state-generated revenues, 2) Block-granting Medicaid would threaten the safety net for middle-class families, 3) Medicaid is a well-baby program but not really a poverty program, 4) The largest share of Medicaid spending benefits the disabled, [...]/p"

Republicans Try to Gut Medicaid as Studies Show Its Success | Crooks and Liars

Republicans Try to Gut Medicaid as Studies Show Its Success | Crooks and Liars

Why Politicians Should Care About Medicaid In Three Graphs

Why Politicians Should Care About Medicaid In Three Graphs: "pIn a new report out today, Scott Lilly dismisses the popular conception that Medicaid cuts would mostly affect lower income Americans who won’t go to the polls and therefore don’t pose much of an electoral threat to lawmakers. He argues that the massive Medicaid reductions in Paul Ryan’s budget (and any other cuts that the [...]/p"

House Liberals Demand No Cuts to Medicare, Social Security in Deficit Deal | Common Dreams

House Liberals Demand No Cuts to Medicare, Social Security in Deficit Deal | Common Dreams

Study: Health insurance for poor people makes a big difference

Study: Health insurance for poor people makes a big difference

AARP 'will not accept any cuts to Social Security as part of a deal to pay the nation's bills'

AARP 'will not accept any cuts to Social Security as part of a deal to pay the nation's bills'

"First Of Its Kind" Study Shows Medicaid Provides Health And Financial Benefits To Poor

"First Of Its Kind" Study Shows Medicaid Provides Health And Financial Benefits To Poor

Medicaid Improves Health Outcome

Medicaid Improves Health Outcome: "pOne of the most ridiculous aspects of the recent debate over the Affordable Care Act went as follows. Many people in the United States of America believe quite sincerely that over-taxation of rich people is among the most serious problems the country faces. And the Affordable Care Act does a great deal to increase taxes [...]/p"

Paul Ryan thinks voters will go for his Medicare-killing budget plan if it's just sold right | Crooks and Liars

Paul Ryan thinks voters will go for his Medicare-killing budget plan if it's just sold right | Crooks and Liars
Paul Ryan keeps trying to destroy Medicare.

Improve Medicare and Expand It to All | Common Dreams

Improve Medicare and Expand It to All | Common Dreams

States Make Drastic Cuts To Medicaid Reimbursment Rates

States Make Drastic Cuts To Medicaid Reimbursment Rates: "pPhil Galewitz’s worries that states’ efforts to control costs in their Medicaid program by cutting reimbursement rates to providers will lead to serious access problems for beneficiaries and only exacerbate physician shortages: The payment cuts, which require federal approval, are part of a larger effort by states to reduce the cost of Medicaid, typically the [...]/p"

If You Had A Stroke Tomorrow: What’s Your Situation? | Common Dreams

If You Had A Stroke Tomorrow: What’s Your Situation? | Common Dreams

Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less? | Dollars & Sense

Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less? | Dollars & Sense

Enrollees In Federal High-Risk Insurance Pools See Lower Premiums

Enrollees In Federal High-Risk Insurance Pools See Lower Premiums: "pI’ve recently been told that progressive groups and blogs are eager to pounce on the administration for not living up to certain principles but rarely highlight instances of success and accomplishment. And so, it’s in an effort to correct the imbalance that that I point to the government’s efforts to reduce health care premiums in [...]/p"

Courts allowing states to screw retired public workers

Courts allowing states to screw retired public workers

Sen. Coburn Embraces GOP Effort To Voucherize Medicare, Exaggerates Defensive Medicine Costs

Sen. Coburn Embraces GOP Effort To Voucherize Medicare, Exaggerates Defensive Medicine Costs

45 Years After Medicare's Implementation, Republicans Are Trying To End It

45 Years After Medicare's Implementation, Republicans Are Trying To End It

The Consequences Of Repealing Medicaid’s Maintenance Of Effort Provision

The Consequences Of Repealing Medicaid’s Maintenance Of Effort Provision: "pOut of the many troubling health care repeal amendments in the Korean trade agreement, Sen. Orrin Hatch’s (R-UT) proposal to repeal the maintenance of effort provision for the Medicaid program — which requires states to maintain their enrollment numbers or risk losing federal funding — is possibly the most egregious. It encompasses the Republican approach [...]/p"

Happy Birthday Medicare!

Happy Birthday Medicare!: "pFast Facts on Medicare Tomorrow marks the 45th anniversary of the implementation of Medicare (July 1, 1966), following President Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the landmark health care program on July 30, 1965.  Despite Medicare’s great run, House Republicans voted almost unanimously to end it in order to pay for tax more breaks for Big Oil, [...]/p"