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House Dems Scramble After Obama Insists On Grand Bargain

Sunday, July 10, 2011


Changing the inflation calculatio­n for Social Security benefits from CPI to chained CPI is a benefit cut by stealth.  Using the low inflation number would result in slightly smaller Social Security benefits every year. While the cuts would take place in small yearly increments­, the cumulative effect would be that over a seniors lifetime they would get tens of thousands less from Social Security (PDF ).

And "Obama saved 350 million last year for Medicare and Medicaid simply by going after the doctors, hospitals, clinics, pharmacist­s and others in the providers and for double billing, double dipping, false claims, etc."???  

You mean the $350 million in his healthcare legislatio­n to be spent over the next decade to computeriz­e everyone's medical records, put them online?  
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