At a time when all Americans are suffering through difficult economic times, I don't believe we want to see our seniors go back to the 1930s...
And the reality is that today we have a system that has never failed the American public.
Workers' hard-earned payroll taxes fund the majority of the benefits Social Security pays out each year.
Social Security is not overly generous. Social Security hasn't gotten too big when it comes to what it provides to Americans.
As a heart surgeon, I had the tremendous privilege of operating on thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, and I can tell you patient by patien...
So you are not consulting the medical community at all.
Last Congress, the Democratically controlled Congress, passed a health care overhaul and a stimulus bill that were supposed to control healt...
I want to put some real structure in place for the FCC, not just for clarity in the industry, but also to move it away from what many of us ...
We have also put forward a plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy, to preserve Medicare as it has been known for those who are on it, and to ...
And again, that is why it just seems like managed care would be custom made, that this is where it would integrate and bring things together...
So just for a specific example, if you can use your Medicare dollar to get a personal attendant for a patient who is pre-nursing home, if yo...
Medicaid is bankrupting States, and this was before the Obamacare mandates that usurp States' rights.
So that is a third category, if you will, combined?
Now, Republican have proposed freeing States from the rigid Medicaid rules, which make it difficult to coordinate benefits between Medicaid ...
Unfortunately, under the current situation, Medicare provides incentives to treat patients in one way and it provides Medicare incentives to...
Medicare, per the actuaries who run the program, is going bankrupt in 10 years hastened by $500 billion extracted from it by Obamacare.
Medicare and Medicaid are important programs that are unfortunately unsustainable in their current form.
I am going to try to fix this legislatively because while it might be too late for the people of Louisiana, it is very timely for the people...