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Why No Ruckus About Medicare Cuts in Sequester?

Posted on 03/1/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsBy Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers are on the hook for a 2 percent cut under looming government spending reductions. But they’re not raising a ruckus. Why? The pain could be a lot worse if President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans actually did reach a sweeping agreement to reduce federal deficits. Automatic cuts taking effect Friday — the “sequester” in Washington-speak — would reduce Medicare spending by about $100 billion …

White House to GOP: Hands Off Medicaid

Posted on 02/5/2013 by | Washington Watch | Comments

Bulletin Today | PoliticsAs politicians squabble in the coming months over which federal programs to cut, Medicaid will be protected by a sort of favorite son status. “Other than the most minimal, smart, efficiency-type of measure, Medicaid savings — Medicaid cuts — for this president, for this administration, are not on the table,” said Gene Sperling, the director of the White House’s National Economic Council. Medicaid, the health care program for low-income Americans, will be expanded in 2014 under the provisions of President …