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Nancy Pelosi: Ryan-Wyden Medicare plan ‘lipstick on a pig’

Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer (Joshua Roberts/REUTERS) If Rep. Steny Hoyer really wants to take us down a path to austerity by cutting Social Security and Medicare, thank goodness he's going to have to get past Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi first. She ...

Action: Tell Steny Hoyer ‘don’t make deals to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid’

Rep. Steny Hoyer Democratic House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer's pivot back to austerity, in coordination with the Wall Street think tank Third Way, poses a real threat to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It's also not smart politics, when Democ...

Scott Walker busted in new lie

(jimspolitico/Yfrog) On Wednesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker held a press conference touting that he was going to lift a cap on enrollment in Family Care, a state program designed to keep the elderly and disabled out of nursing homes. Good for him,...

When punditry fails: Rep. Paul Ryan is Politico’s health care policy-maker of the year

Rep. Paul Ryan, Politico's health care policy-maker of the year. Seriously. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Politico proves that in D.C., awards are not given on actual merit, but on what The Village cares about. To wit, they've made Rep. Paul Ryan, the ma...

Boehner looks for deeper Medicaid cuts, ignoring Medicaid realities

House Speaker John Boehner, representing his caucus, wants to gut Medicaid. The Democratic plan would cut as much as $500 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs and would raise taxes by $1.3 trillion; the proposal also would includ...

Super Congress stalling out over GOP refusal to consider taxes

No one could have foreseen this. The supercommittee is struggling. After weeks of secret meetings, the 12-member deficit-cutting panel established under last summer's budget and debt deal appears no closer to a breakthrough than when talks began last...

House progressives want Super Congress to focus on jobs, protecting the safety net

Rep. Raul M. Grijalva On the heels of a report from the CBO that says full employment would reduce the deficit by a third, the House Progressive Caucus is urging the Super Congress to focus its efforts on jobs, as well as on protecting Medicare, Med...

Disabled activists descend on Capitol Hill to fight for Medicaid

Here's some great reporting from TPM on a demonstration Tuesday on Capitol Hill by disabled activists, taking their message about the importance of Medicaid to the Super Congress. The protest, organized by the disability group ADAPT, started in the Ha...

Benefit cuts largely left out of Obama’s Medicare/Medicaid proposals

The new deficit reduction plan proposed by President Obama [pdf] leaves out the worst Medicare benefit cut that had been the centerpiece of administration negotiations with Republicans earlier. Raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 is not...

Biden announces progress in cutting Medicare/Medicaid waste

(White House) Here's some good news on the policy front for the administration. Vice President Biden on Wednesday announced billions in savings from the Obama administration's efforts to cut waste and fraud throughout the federal government, senior ...

Obama said to be ready to propose Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security benefit cuts

(Jason Reed/Reuters) According to the Financial Times, President Obama is going to propose cuts of "several hundred billion dollars from Medicare and Medicaid," when he presents his proposal for deficit reduction next Monday. The FT reports that the ...

Could Rick Perry save Social Security?

(Brian Snyder/Reuters) Here's a chilling reality: WASHINGTON — In a significant shift driven by bipartisan concern about the looming long-term debt, Republicans and Democrats are no longer fighting over whether to tackle the popular entitlement pro...

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