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Medicare Roundup 10/12: Setting the Record Straight
In recent weeks, liberal politicians, editorialists, and policy analysts have vigorously attacked reform of Medicare based on a defined contribution financing. In fact, this approach to reforming Medicare has a long bipartisan tradition, going back to the 1980s and Representatives Richard Gephardt (D–MO) and David Stockman (R–MI). In fact, much of this criticism is distorted, misleading, or just plain wrong.
Here are some articles that set the record straight:
Commentary:
Obama’s Medicare Cuts Will Affect Benefits (Bob Moffit)
National Review Online, 10/12/12
“Question: If you cut funding for benefits, will you then affect persons dependent upon those benefits? Of course you will. Financing directly affects the quantity and quality of the benefits available to the beneficiaries.”
Vice Presidential Debate: True/False Quiz on Medicare (Alyene Senger)
The Heritage Foundation, 10/12/12
“During the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Representative Paul Ryan, several claims were made about Medicare. Some of these were true, others false.”
Tags: beneficiaries, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, myths, premium support, truth
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Medicare and Seniors: Answering the $6,400 Question
Opponents to Medicare reform have been making plenty of erroneous claims about Medicare premium support lately, one of the worst being that Representative Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) premium-support model, co-authored by Senator Ron Wyden (D–OR), would cost future seniors an extra $6,400 a year. This claim is simply false.
Buried beneath the wild and scary allegations are the facts, which Heritage expert Rea Hederman details in his recent paper “Why Medicare Premium Support Would Not Cost Future Beneficiaries $6,400 More.”
Read the rest on The Foundry…
Tags: $6400 extra, beneficiaries, erroneous claims, Medicare Advantage, myths, premium support, reform
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FACT CHECK: Obama Misleads on Medicare, Taxes, and Regulations
During a Sunday evening interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” President Obama made numerous factually inaccurate or misleading claims.
Specifically, Obama claimed that he has not raised Americans’ taxes, that he has not raised costs for Medicare beneficiaries, and that he has imposed fewer regulations than his predecessor. The first two claims are false, and the third is highly misleading.
Obama: “You can’t ask me to…ask seniors to pay more for their Medicare.”
Fact: Obamacare’s cuts to Medicare will raise Medicare costs for many seniors.
Read the rest on The Foundry…
Tags: "60 Minutes", beneficiaries, CBS, facts, Medicare, myths, ObamaCare, President Obama, Seniors, taxes
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