The 2014 budget that President Barack Obama proposed today is all about creating jobs and boosting the economy, the president said today. His budget, he said, replaces the cuts of sequetration with “smarter ones.” It builds new roads and bridges,...
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Senate Budget Committee staff members hand out copies of the Obama Administration's proposed FY 2014 federal budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill April 10, 2013 in Washington, DC.
Obama: ‘Not a Lot of Smoke and Mirrors’
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The industry today is holding the first-ever conference on covering so-called ``dual eligibles'', people who are both old enough to qualify for Medicare, and poor enough to be put on Medicaid.
Insurers Set Eyes on States’ Oldest, Sickest
As at least 24 U.S. states prepare to move their oldest and sickest citizens from the government’s Medicare and Medicaid health programs into managed-care plans, insurers are figuring out the best way to profit. The industry today is holding the...
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Representative Paul Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, speaks during a news conference following a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 23, 2013.
Paul Ryan’s 34% Medicare Plan
Paul Ryan is getting ready to release another budget. Like the first one the House Budget chairman introduced two years ago, it will contain a provision to move people from Medicare to a voucher for private health care, starting with...
Read more »IDL Dances With CACI After Federal Health Contract
IDL Solutions Inc., a small health-care technology firm, got its “ticket to the dance” in 2007 after winning a seat on a federal contract valued at $4 billion over a decade. Now, it has a dance partner: CACI International Inc.,...
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Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner enters a press conference where he spoke about the fiscal cliff.
Obama-Boehner Talks: 5.0
House Speaker John Boehner, after several conversations with President Barack Obama either in person or by telephone, has gone to the White House again today. With a Dec. 31 deadline for averting a pileup of automatic tax increases and spending...
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid addressed negotiations to avert the "fiscal cliff" and mentioned possible changes to filibuster rules in the Senate.
Harry Reid: No Small-Scale AMT Fix
The Senate won’t consider a small-scale bill to avoid an expansion of the alternative minimum tax or a cut in Medicare reimbursements to physicians if no broader budget deal is reached, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says. Reid, a Nevada...
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Seniors attend a 'Medicare Monday' seminar at the Holly Creek retirement community in Centennial, Colorado.
Remember that $716 Billion?
It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans pilloried Democrats — on the campaign trail, over the airwaves, in countless news releases — for cutting $716 billion out of Medicare. “The money you paid for your guaranteed health care is going to a massive new government program that’s...
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Florida Governor Rick Scott greets Mitt Romney during a rally at Flagler College, in St. Augustine, Florida, on August 13, 2012.
Medicare Fraud: Obama-Backing Super-PAC Ties Scott, Romney
Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who won election despite a business record including a company engaged in Medicare fraud, is not the most popular politician. The super-PAC backing President Barack Obama is counting on both that and the Medicare voucher plan...
Read more »Obama Medicare Ad: “Sleepless Nights” Under President Romney
President Barack Obama’s campaign is attacking Mitt Romney on Medicare in a television ad featuring senior citizens, including one who warns of “sleepless nights” if Romney wins the Nov. 6 election. “Mitt Romney would turn Medicare into vouchers,” a narrator...
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The conclusion: ”Five reasons we can’t afford four more years of Barack Obama.”
Romney Ad: `The Obama Plan’
Republican Mitt Romney has spent a lot of time in debate and on the campaign trail talking about the last four years. Now, in the final weeks of the contest, the Romney campaign is airing an ad talking about the...
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