In this clip Rick Santorum discusses, among other things, his support of the Medicare Part-D program. That is, of course, the prescription drug program he helped voted into law during the Bush years.
Conservatives have criticized him for this vote, but they forget that one of its most important components was the introduction of free market reforms to […]
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SANTORUM DISCUSSES HIS PART-D VOTE
VIDEO: SANTORUM EXPLAINS HIS VOTE FOR MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION DRUG ENTITLEMENT
Well, when I left for my vacation among the crumbling remains of the Roman Empire, Rick Santorum’s campaign seemed in ruins as well. I paid no attention to politics while I was gone, so I was surprised to discover that the former Senator has suddenly broken through and actually has a chance to win in […]
POLITIFACT’S “LIE OF THE YEAR” BUSTS DEMS FOR CLAIMING GOP VOTED TO KILL MEDICARE
This award has our progressive friends, who can usually count on these “fact check” sites to aim at Republicans rather than Democrats, hopping mad. But it’s dead on—-the Dems lied like rugs on this one.
Last April, the House passed a budget that kept Medicare as is for anyone 55 or older, but moved the program toward privatization (with government subsidies) for younger […]
END-OF-LIFE SAVINGS FOOL’S GOLD?
A couple of weeks ago, in the American Spectator, I gigged Newt Gingrich for parroting a tired progressive talking point:
In 2009, he wrote another Washington Post column in which he echoed a refrain often heard from people who believe we should ration care to the elderly: ‘More than 20 percent of all Medicare spending occurs in the […]
VIDEO: ANDREW SULLIVAN’S ORWELLIAN TAKE ON CONSERVATISM AND MEDICARE
Andrew Sullivan has gone completely off the rails. In ths video he claims to be more conservative than the GOP because he wants to stick with the unsustainable status quo on Medicare. When did it become conservative to support a program whose unfunded liabilities are more than twice the country’s annual GDP?
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SHOCKER: GOVT PROBABLY UNDERESTIMATING REAL COST OF MEDICARE BY $6 TRILLION
I know this will be hard to believe of those paragons of fiscal precision inside the Beltway, but it appears that official estimates of Medicare’s unfunded liability are too low:
Medicare’s long-term liabilities already are among the biggest drivers of future federal budget deficits. But the burden on taxpayers may be $6 trillion larger than official estimates.
Surely […]
MEDICARE, AT 45, HAS A MID-LIFE CRISIS
Medicare officially went into effect on July 1, 1966. And, as Avik Roy points out, it is the perfect case study in why government cost estimates for any entitlement program should be ignored by all sane voters:
When Medicare was enacted, the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee projected that its cost would grow from under […]
HEALTH CARE “REFORM” IS TO MEDICARE AS ENOLA GAY WAS TO HIROSHIMA
It could hardly be more obvious that the President and his Democrat accomplices have dropped a twenty megaton bomb on Medicare. ObamaCare strips $500 billion from the program and effectively kills its most popular iteration—Medicare Advantage. Why? Milton Wolf provides the answer in his latest Washington Times column:
The president’s intentions are chillingly clear: ‘I happen […]
VIDEO: DNC CHAIR PROVES DEMS HAVE NO PLAN TO SAVE MEDICARE
The Dems have spent a good deal of time trashing Paul Ryan and his plan to save Medicare, but have offered no sensible counter-proposal. In this clip, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is asked for a reasonable alternative and can’t produce anything but the same tired “Mediscare” whoppers she and her accomplices have been peddling all along:
RYAN: WASHINGTON HAS NOT BEEN HONEST WITH YOU ABOUT MEDICARE
In this video, Paul Ryan does his usual excellent job of explaining why the President’s plan to maintain the status quo on Medicare is unsustainable. Then, he offers a workable alternative to a program that has already accumulated a $24.6 trillion unfunded liability: