Posts Tagged ‘Medicare (old)’
Don’t Gamble with Our Social Security
Andy Stern, a key member of the president’s deficit commission, proposes to invest a part of our Social Security funds in the stock market. Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal think tank, has expressed approval for Stern’s proposal. “I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad idea,” said Baker.…
Read MoreSupport the Single-Payer Expressions for Access to Care Equality Project
Every movement has its music. With this in mind, CUUSP is joining efforts with Healthcare-NOW! to produce a compilation album of songs and stories that will serve to further inform and inspire this present-day civil rights movement. S-PEACE (Single-Payer Expressions for Access to Care Equality) will combine folk, rock, blues, hip hop, and spoken word…
Read MoreSocial Security Cuts Eyed by Deficit Commission ‘Especially Painful,’ Report Finds
by Mike Hall for AFL-CIO NOW Blog – Next month, Social Security, one of the nation’s most successful and important government programs, turns 75. It is the cornerstone of retirement security for tens of millions of Americans. (Today, the U.S. House Ways and Means subcommittee on Social Security will examine the success of Social Security…
Read MoreObama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick
By Chris Hedges for Truthdig – A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks the lofty promises made by President Barack Obama, exposing most as lies, but sadly reconfirms that our nation is hostage…
Read More‘Don’t shred our safety nets’
The following text is the testimony that Katie Robbins, national organizer for Healthcare-NOW!, presented to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform on June 30 in Washington. Thank you for this opportunity to testify. My name is Katie Robbins and I am here on behalf of Healthcare-NOW!, an organization founded in 2004 to support…
Read MoreAmerica Speaks Back: The Effort to Gut Social Security and Medicare Takes a Hit
By Dean Baker for TPM – The opponents of Social Security and Medicare are getting in high gear. After all, it makes perfect sense that after the collapse of a housing bubble has just destroyed the life savings of near retirees that we would cut their Social Security and Medicare. Okay, at least in Washington…
Read MoreSpeak Up for Medicare and Social Security
For decades, Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson has been trying to privatize or get rid of Social Security and Medicare. Now he is funding AmericaSpeaks, a private company that is organizing town hall meetings with citizens across the country on Saturday, June 26th. Pete Peterson wants to use these meetings to shape the national discussion…
Read MoreHands Off Medicare and Social Security!
In the name of “fiscal balance,” President Obama’s Debt Commission is pushing for cuts in Medicare and Social Security. Ignoring the hundreds of billions of dollars the country could save by implementing a national single-payer healthcare system, they’re threatening the a true safety net our most vulnerable Americans can rely on. We are joining Progressive…
Read MoreRising Costs: A Health Care Challenge For Democrats
by Julie Rovner for NPR – For Democrats, passing the new health care law may have been the easy part. Now that it’s the law, everything that happens in health care, whether due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or not, is their responsibility. “The Democrats have guaranteed that the American health care…
Read MoreThe Deficit Commission and Cuts to Medicare, Social Security
This year, Medicare turns 45, and maintaining this important federal program and protecting it from those who want to cut it is more important than ever. Because of recent economic and natural catastrophes, many people in this country are finding their quality of life slipping to standards lower than before the 1990s. Despite this, our…
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