Topic: Medicare

For months now, Democrats have been bludgeoning Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Joe Heck with familiar and tiresome rhetoric to frighten old people into voting for their opponents.Cutting Medicare. Cutting Social Security. Cutting their oxygen, too, I suppose.The Republicans apparently also adore ...

Exclusive: Democrats seek up to $3 trillion in budget savings

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are proposing $2.5 trillion to $3 trillion in measures to reduce the budget deficit, including revenue increases and significant cuts to Medicare, congressional aides told Reuters.The plan was unveiled on Tuesday at a closed-door meeting of a special ...

Tea Party groups see Medicare overhaul chance

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With Medicare at the top of lawmakers' fall agenda, Tea Party movement leaders hope to ignite support for Republican plans to transform the popular federal healthcare program for the elderly.Thousands of Tea Party movement activists are expected to descend ...

Republicans unveil jobs plan after budget defeat

US House Republican leaders unveiled a jobs agenda Thursday in a bid to roll back a series of defeats over their budget plan calling for radical changes to government-paid health care for seniors.The agenda, dubbed "the House Republican plan for America's job ...

Senate plans 5 p.m. vote on Republican Medicare plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the Senate plan a 5 p.m. vote on Wednesday to force their Republican opponents to take a stand on a budget plan that would scale back the Medicare health program for future retirees.Polls show the measure, which ...

Democrat Kathy Hochul wins upstate NY race

BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - Democrat Kathy Hochul drew on voter discontent over Republican plans to revamp Medicare to score an upset win on Tuesday in a special election to represent a conservative upstate New York congressional district.Hochul defeated Republican Jane Corwin ...

Democrats sharpen attack on Medicare overhaul

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats sharpened their attack on Monday against a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare as they prepared to force their opponents to vote on the unpopular proposal to privatize the health program for the elderly.Senate leader Harry Reid plans a ...

The budget debate

Moving forward, the nation can't afford the GOP's plans for the futureCongress is scheduled to vote later this week on the deal struck late Friday that averted a government shutdown. The proposal, which would cut $38.5 billion in spending from the fiscal ...

Cantor sees Social Security reform proposals soon

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Republican proposals on how to reform federal programs like Social Security and Medicare could be ready in about a month, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday.Speaking at Harvard University, House Majority ...

Key Democrat warns on healthcare repeal bid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans will be forced to vote separately on popular provisions of the Obama administration's healthcare reform law if they introduce a bill to repeal it, a senior Democratic lawmaker said on Sunday.Senator Chuck Schumer, who voted for President ...
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