Issues
Health Care
“The best initiative that we can take to strengthen Medicare and improve care and benefits for our seniors, closing the donut hole, is to pass health care reform.”
What Speaker Pelosi’s Health Care will do to us:
- U.S. Steel announced Pelosi’s Health Care will cost them$27 million in just the first three months (Q1).
- Federal subsidies to the private Medicare Advantage plans — those that cover about 25 percent of Medicare participants and cost the government more, on average, than traditional Medicare — would be cut beginning in 2012
- According to an Obama Administration’s Medicare office report, more than seven million seniors could lose their Medicare coverage and 15% of hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies would opt out of the Medicare program altogether.