Tag Archives: Medicare

Whoa.

Talking Points Memo on the clip below: In a significant escalation of the progressive campaign to make Republicans pay a political price for voting to end Medicare, the progressive advocacy group Americans United for Change will run broadcast TV ads in the districts of Reps. Steve King (R-IA), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Chip Cravaack (R-MN), and Paul Ryan (R-WI). “What are …

Another classic rant from our favorite Independent.

We can’t be surprised by this.

House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan today unveiled a long-term plan that would dramatically overhaul the way the federal government and states administer Medicare and Medicaid. The GOP plan also, of course, repeals “Obamacare.” Ryan’s budget proposal aims to slash $6 trillion from the budget over the next 10 years. It would in part accomplish that by changing Medicaid …

Keep his campaign promise, Florida Gov. Rick “Medicare Fraud” Scott has rejected $2.4B in federal stimulus money for a high-speed rail connection between Orlando and Tampa, a long dreamed of project for both cities’ business leaders. Scott’s decision likely means those dollars will be rerouted to California and other states investing in a high-speed rail network that Obama has likened …

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, the teabagging founder and former CEO of a hospital group found guilty in the hugest Medicare scam in history, began his tenure today by issuing an executive order limiting the state’s non-discrimination law to cases involving race, gender, creed, color and national origin. South Florida Gay News reports: “Governor Scott did not even include all of …

Speaking to Fox News Sunday today, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Medicare and Social Security “a Ponzi scheme” and unconstitutional. “Do the things you’re supposed to do, like securing our border, like delivering the mail — preferably on time and on Saturdays — before you get involved in things that the Constitution doesn’t say one word about, like health care,” …

Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink just conceded the race to teabagger Rick Scott, who spent $75M of his stolen-from-the-people fortune to buy his way into a slim victory. In 2002 Scott’s hospital group paid the largest federal fine in history, a multi-billion dollar judgment assessed for pervasive and systematic Medicare fraud, yet Scott still walked away with $350M of that …

Democratic nominee Alex Sink is barely leading teabagger and scam artist Rick Scott in the polling for Florida governor. As the co-founder and CEO of Columbia/HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain, Scott was at the helm of the largest Medicare fraud case in American history, with his company eventually paying the largest federal fine of all time, $1.7B. Scott …

RNC chairman Michael Steele doesn’t want a government-run health care program. He wants to protect Medicare. Which is a….anyone?

“Keep the guv’mint out of my Medicare.” (Via – Slog)