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Nancy Pelosi's Claim That the GOP Would Raid Medicare for Tax Cuts
“We already have an Affordable Care Act. We found savings of over $700 billion by slowing the increase and the rate of reimbursement to certain providers. We used that $700 billion to increase benefits to seniors and the Republicans took the same money and used it for a tax cut at the high end and said that we were cutting benefits, which we weren’t.”— House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Jan. 6, 2013
We are reluctant to re-litigate the rhetoric of the 2012 presidential campaign, but this comment by Rep. Nancy Pelosi about the House GOP budget jumped out at us.
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Source: The Washington Post
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Navigating Health Policy in an Election Year: Insights From Dr Dennis Scanlon
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Exploring Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Variations
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