Gop Medicare

Harry Reid Moves To Draw Line In Sand On Debt Deal

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Taxes, Debt Ceiling, Harry Reid, Senate Debt Deal, Video, Senate Debt Ceiling, Debt Reduction, Harry Reid Debt Deal, Debt Deal, Gop Medicare Cuts, GOP Medicare, Medicare, Harry Reid Debt Ceiling, Millionaires Tax, Harry Reid Debt, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Republicans will have to drop their insistence on retaining tax cuts for the rich and plans to reshape Medicare before there can be...

Read Whole Story

House Dems Cry Foul Over Rejected Mailings, Ask Boehner To Intervene

Roll Call | Daniel Newhauser | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Franking, Gerry Connolly, Democrats Franking, John Boehner, GOP Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget Plan, Democrats Medicare, Paul Ryan Medicare, Gop Franking, Kathy Hochul, Paul Ryan, Politics News

Democratic House Members are lashing out at Republican leadership over rejected mass mailings, saying their messages lambasting the GOP budget plan an...

Read Whole Story

Dem Senators To Biden: Reject GOP Medicare Plan

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Biden Budget, GOP Medicare, Budget Negotiations, 2012 Budget, Ryan Medicare, Gop Medicare Plan, Paul Ryan Medicare, Republican Medicare Plan, Paul Ryan Medicare Plan, Medicare, Biden Medicare, Democrats, Republicans Medicare, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Five Democratic senators are calling on Vice President Joe Biden to keep the House Republican plan for Medicare out of out of budge...

Read Whole Story

The Tea Party Talking Points On Medicare

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Debt Ceiling, Freedomworks, GOP Medicare, Freedomworks Medicare, Mike Lee, Paul Ryan Medicare, Medicare, Tea Parties, FreedomWorks Health Care, Balanced Budget Amendment, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The conservative group FreedomWorks has a message for freshman Republicans in Congress: Do not shy away from the Medicare fight. On ...

Read Whole Story

Doctors Are Abandoning The GOP

New York Times | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Doctors Politics, GOP Medicare, Doctors Democratic Party, Gop Medicare Cuts, Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Doctors, Medicare, Doctors Republican Party, Health Care, Politics News

Doctors were once overwhelmingly male and usually owned their own practices. They generally favored lower taxes and regularly fought lawyers to restri...

Read Whole Story

Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.28.2011

Read More: Netanyahu Congress, Newt Gingrich Tiffany's Bill, John Edwards Rielle Hunter, Rielle Hunter, Hangover 2, Obama Patriot Act, GOP Medicare, Gop 2012, Politics News

This week Bibi Netanyahu addressed Congress; President Obama extended the Patriot Act for another four years; prosecutors moved another step closer to indicting John Edwards for misusing campaign funds to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter; and Newt Gingrich scrambled to reconcile his claims of being "very frugal" with his $500,000 revolving line of credit at Tiffany. Meanwhile, in a political version of The Hangover sequel, the GOP's leadership, drunk on Tea (Party), did something wild and crazy -- creating a plan to gut and privatize Medicare, and pressuring elected Republicans to vote for it -- only to wake up in New York's 26th District with a pounding morning-after headache. If Democrats don't provide a cure by agreeing to deep cuts in Medicare as part of a deal to raise the government's debt ceiling, this GOP hangover could last until November 2012.

Read Post

House GOP Freshmen Trade Tips On How To Handle Town Hall Anger

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and FELICIA FONSECA | Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Gop Medicare Reform, Republicans Medicare Reform, Paul Ryan Medicare Reform, Mike Simpson, Paul Ryan Medicare Proposal, Paul Gosar, Paul Ryan Medicare, GOP Medicare, Andy Harris, Paul Ryan Medicare Plan, Republicans Medicare, Ben Quayle, Paul Ryan, Politics News

ELKTON, Md. — U.S. Rep. Andy Harris answers Medicare questions before his Maryland constituents even ask them. Clear across the country, fellow ...

Read Whole Story

Medicare Revamp Exposes Divisions Within GOP

The Wall Street Journal | Naftali Bendavid & Jonathan Weisman | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Gingrich Medicare, GOP Medicare, Medicare, Paul Ryan Medicare Plan, Newt Gingrich, Republicans Medicare, Newt Gingrich Medicare, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget Plan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

Newt Gingrich's dismissal of the House Republican plan to overhaul Medicare provoked a rebuttal from the proposal's author, Rep. Paul Ryan, highlighti...

Read Whole Story

Despite Differences, Obama, GOP Eye Medicare Limit

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 07.09.2011

Read More: Republicans Medicare Cuts, Gop Medicare Cuts, Barack Obama Medicare Cuts, Barack Obama Medicare, Obama Medicare Cuts, Obama Debt Ceiling, Obama Medicare, Obama Debt Limit, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare, GOP Medicare, Republicans Medicare, Paul Ryan, Obama Deficit, Obama Deficit Ceiling, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Unlikely as it may seem, President Barack Obama and Republicans in Congress actually share some common ground on the need to curb M...

Read Whole Story

GOP Struggles To Find Unified Voice

Los Angeles Times | Kathleen Hennessey and Lisa Mascaro | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Republican Budget, 2012 Budget, Republican Budget Medicare, Gop Medicare Budget, Paul Ryan Budget Proposal, John Boehner, Elections 2012, Gop, Gop Budget Medicare, GOP Budget, GOP Medicare, Medicare, Republicans Medicare, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Republicans, Politics News

Six months after Republicans swept the midterm election by promising bold solutions to fiscal woes, they continue to struggle to find a unified voice ...

Read Whole Story

For GOP Lawmakers, An Issue Of Stretching Claims On Medicare

The Washington Post | Glenn Kessler | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: GOP Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget Proposal, Republicans Medicare Cuts, Republicans Budget Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare Cuts, Gop Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget Cuts, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

The comparison to Congress is obviously a well-crafted applause line. Republican members of Congress have used it repeatedly in recent weeks, with man...

Read Whole Story

GOP Medicare Plan Faces Loud Objections From Seniors

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 06.28.2011

Read More: Paul Ryan Budget Proposal, Republicans Budget Cuts, Republicans Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare Cuts, Gop Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare, GOP Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget Cuts, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Republican plan to privatize Medicare wouldn't touch his benefits, but Walter Dotson still doesn't like the idea. He worries ab...

Read Whole Story

WATCH: GOP Lawmaker Faces Hostile Questioning Over Medicare

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Republican Town Halls Medicare, Rick Berg, GOP Medicare, Republican Town Halls Budget, Ryan Medicare, Ryan Budget Medicare, Medicare, Rick Berg Medicare, Gop Town Halls Medicare, Gop Town Halls Budget, Republicans Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget, Townhalls, Video, Politics News

WASHINGTON - Rep. Rick Berg (R-N.D.) heard from elderly voters angry about his vote to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher program at the Bisma...

Read Whole Story

Congressional Republicans Face Backlash Back Home

AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER and DINESH RAMDE | Posted 06.27.2011

Read More: Gop Budget Cuts, Paul Ryan Budget Proposal, Republicans Medicare Cuts, Republicans Budget Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare Cuts, Gop Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare, GOP Budget, GOP Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget Cuts, Republican Medicare, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget Plan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

ORLANDO, Fla. — Freshman Rep. Daniel Webster was armed with a rainbow of graphs and pie charts, ready to make the GOP's case for budget cuts bef...

Read Whole Story

Republicans Facing Tough Questions Over Proposed Medicare Overhaul

The Washington Post | Peter Wallsten | Posted 06.23.2011

Read More: Paul Ryan Budget Proposal, Republicans Medicare Cuts, Gop Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan Medicare Proposal, Paul Ryan Medicare, GOP Medicare, Medicare, Republicans Medicare, Medicare Cuts, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Politics News

Anxiety is rising among some Republicans over the party's embrace of a plan to overhaul Medicare, with GOP lawmakers already starting to face tough qu...

Read Whole Story

Paul Ryan, GOP Get Turn On Medicare Hot Seat

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: House Republicans Medicare, Paul Ryan Budget Proposal, Paul Ryan 2012 Budget, House Gop Medicare, Paul Ryan Medicare, Medicare, Paul Ryan Federal Budget, GOP Medicare, Republicans Medicare, Paul Ryan, Paul Ryan Budget, Federal Budget, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Now it's their turn to try to fix the health care mess. Republicans, just like President Barack Obama, may discover that's easier s...

Read Whole Story

Republicans Appear Poised To Take On Entitlements

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Republicans Entitlement Cuts, Republicans Social Security, Republicans Health Care Cuts, Gop Social Security Cuts, Republicans Medicare Cuts, Gop Medicare Cuts, Allen West, Entitlement Reform, GOP Social Security, Gop Entitlement Cuts, Republicans Social Security Cuts, Gop Health Care Cuts, Republican Party, Gop Entitlement Reform, Gop, Republicans Entitlement Reform, GOP Medicare, Republicans Medicare, Politics News

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — If there's any place where tea partiers in Congress might hesitate to call for cuts in Social Security and Medicare to shr...

Read Whole Story

Republicans Forced To Reverse Course, Yet Again, On Medicare

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Republicans Steele, GOP Medicare, Mcconnell Medicare, Senate GOP, Republicans Medicare, Mitch Mcconnell Medicare Expansion, Republicans, Mitch McConnell, Politics News

A new effort by Senate Democrats to expand Medicare coverage by opening it up to 55- to 64-year-olds has forced Republicans into an about face of sort...

Read Whole Story

Anthony Weiner: GOP Public Option Opponents Should Give Up Their Medicare

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democrats Public Option, Anthony Weiner Public Option, Public Option, Anthony Weiner Gop Medicare, Democrats Health Care, Gop Public Option, Anthony Weiner Health Care, Gop Health Care, Health Care Reform, Anthony Weiner, GOP Medicare, Medicare, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

On Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) called on 55 Republican adversaries of the public option to give up their government-funded health insurance...

Read Whole Story

GOP To Block Obama Health Nominees In Medicare Spat

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Health Nominees, Gop Obstruction, Humana Medicare, Health Care Reform, Gop, Gop Health Care Reform, Medicare, GOP Medicare, Humana, Health Nominees, Humana Letter, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate's top Republicans said Thursday they wouldn't allow President Barack Obama to fill health posts until his administration...

Read Whole Story

Dems: "Republicans Want To End Medicare" (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dnc Medicare Ad, GOP Medicare, Medicare, Republicans Medicare, Republicans Medicare Ad, Video, Politics News

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday accusing Democrats of looking to gut Medicare. ...

Read Whole Story

How The GOP Flip-Flopped On Medicare

Wall Street Journal | NEIL KING JR. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GOP Seniors, Gop, GOP Flip-Flop, GOP Medicare, Politics News

The Republican Party issued a new salvo in the health debate Monday with a "seniors' health care bill of rights" that opposed any moves to trim Medica...

Read Whole Story