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Friday, February 21, 2014
Democrat Medicare Cuts Will Hurt
Democrats Actually Designed These Cuts To Medicare Advantage & They Voted To Defend Them Twice
Obamacare: $308 Billion In Medicare Advantage Cuts
CBO: “Our estimate of the interaction between the FFS provisions and payment rates for MA [Medicare Advantage] plans is $152 billion.”(CBO, E-Mail To Senate Staff, 7/24/12)
CBO: “The sum of those two effects is $308 billion.”(CBO, E-Mail To Senate Staff, 7/24/12)
Democrats Repeatedly Defended Their Cuts To Medicare Advantage
“The 57-41 roll call Friday by which the Senate turned back a Republican effort to restore $120 billion in cuts to Medicare Advantage, the private insurance plan within Medicare that provides seniors with better benefits than the traditional program.” (“Senate Roll Call: GOP Effort To Restore Cuts,” AP, 12/4/09)
SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-NH): “There are significant savings” in Medicare Advantage (CNN’s “State Of The Union,” 11/22/09) SEN. MARY LANDRIEU (D-LA): Obamacare“makes changes to the Medicare Advantage payment structure that will give insurers an incentive to deliver more value for taxpayers' money.” (Sen. Landrieu, Press Release, 12/22/09)
SEN. TOM HARKIN (D-IA): “What we're cutting are the slush funds of the insurance companies that are making billions of dollars off of Medicare Advantage. That's what we're cutting.” (MSNBC, 12/1/09)
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