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If President Obama won t agree to scrap his health care reform law entirely, Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, said Saturday, the least he can do is provide targeted relief to senior citizens on Medicare Advantage who have watched their costs grow and their provider networks shrink under Obamacare. Because of Obamacare, stanley cup many seniors enrolled in the popular Medicare Advantage program are paying higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs, Johnson sa stanley deutschland id in the weekly Republican address. Many are losing access to their physicians, and many more will, unless the president takes action. Medicare Advantage is a type of insurance plan from a private insurer that contracts with Medicare to provide health coverage to older Americans. The health care reform law reduced payments to providers participating in Medicare Advantage plans, and though the law s proponents have said the reform would save money while rewarding providers for enhancing the quality of their care, foes have pointed to stories of people losing access to their doctors due to the law s regulations.Johnson said doctors in his district have told him their patients were blindsided by changes to their insurance coverage, and he cited one constituent who said her nearly 30-year water bottle stanley relationship with a favorite eye doctor was ended because of Obamacare. Remember how the president said he didn t want to interfere in these relationships he asked. More than 794,000 seniors in Ohio rely on Medicare Advantage - that s hundreds of thousand Rrdl Hillary Clinton to raise money for Chelsea s mother-in-law
CHENEY REDUX....In the previous post I suggested that Dick Cheney s secrecy regarding his energy task force meetings was genuinely based on his belief that it was important to reassert the prerogatives stanley us of the executive branch. Just for the hell of it, though, here s the devil s advocate view.Cast your mind back to early 2001. It was before 9/11, before Abu Ghraib, before the signing statements and the suspension of habeas corpus. George Bush had just spent the previous year campaigning as a compassionate conservative. He had promised to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. He had won a bitter recount in Florida and the conventional wisdom suggested that the closeness of his victory meant that he d need to adopt a moderate, bipartisan tone. And, in fact, he was doing just that, inviting Ted Kennedy to screenings in the White House theater while they worked together like old friends to pass No Child Left Behind. It s hard to believe now, but at the time spring was in the air.Today, this is all long gone. We look at the people Cheney met with and our reaction is Eh. What else did you expect But back in early 2001, that wasn t what people expected. They still believed in Bush the bipartisan moderate consensus builder, the new kind of Republican who wasn t solely beholden to the usual corporate interests. Making the list of task force meetings public would h stanley cup ave put somethi stanley canada ng of a crimp in that image, wouldn t it In the end, |
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