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Discussing the Congressional Conference Agreement Preventing Medicare Physician Pay Cuts

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Feb 232012
 
Medicare Rights Center President, Joe Baker, discusses the congressional conference agreement preventing Medicare physician pay cuts. For more information, please see our press release here: www.medicarerights.org If you would like to receive weekly Policy updates in your e-mail please sign up for our newsletter, Medicare Watch, here: www.medicarerights.org
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Conservatives react to Mitt Romney’s plan to cut Social Security and Medicare

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Feb 132012
 
Click here to tell Mitt Romney to keep his hands off Social Security! strengthensocialsecurity.org Mitt Romney talks Social Security and Medicare on February 10, 2012 at the Conservative Political Action Conference. ROMNEY: In their current form, Social Security and Medicare are unsustainable. We will slowly and gradually raise the retirement age for Social Security -- and, we will slow the growth in benefits for our nation's higher-income retirees. When it comes to Medicare, tomorrow's seniors should have the freedom to choose between traditional Medicare and a range of private plans. Take a look at the Ryan plan. We're pretty much chapter and verse CARD: Social Security Works asked some CPAC attendees what they think of his plan to cut Social Security and Medicare. MAN: I think it stinks! Interviewer: He said we should cut Social Security and Medicare for future generations... I assume that means us. YOUNG MAN: That would be unfortunate. MAN: "Social Security and Medicare are programs that...they're insurance programs actually, just like if you have homeowners insurance. If something happens to your home, they pay it for you." INTERVIEWER: And we shouldn't be cutting them in order to reduce a deficit they didn't cause? MAN: No, not at all Interviewer: One thing that he said today was that he wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare. WOMAN: Well, that's not so good—not because I'm not it—but because so many people are paying into it, they're entitled to this sort of <b>...</b>
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Summit Medical Group’s CEO Tim Young discuss the impact of potential Medicare cuts

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Dec 192011
 
Summit Medical Group's CEO Tim Young discusses the impact potential Medicare cuts will have on our community as part of this newsmaker interview with WBIR-TV's Robin Wilhoit.
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ULTCW March Against Medicare Cuts – KWHY 22 – Spanish

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Nov 182011
 
Raymond Mesa and Carlos Ruben Zapata from Noticias 22 (KWHY) a las 10, report on ULTCW's action in Downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, November 16, 2011. ULTCW members want to make sure the Super Committee's decisions protect vital services for Californians receiving Medicare and Social Security. 50th District Assemblymember Ricardo Lara and ULTCW's Wendy Carrillo are interviewed. ULTCW members Cristina Romero, Santos Gil, Vanessa Gil, and Luisa Padilla present different reasons why the social safety net is so important to caregivers and receivers.
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SEIU ULTCW Rally Against Super Committee Medicare Cuts in Downtown Los Angeles

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Nov 182011
 
SEIU ULTCW and other community partners rallied at the Social Security Administration against Medicare Cuts proposed by the Super Committee and Congress. ULTCW President Laphonza Butler speaks on the importance of Medicare in providing health care for all Americans.
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SEIU ULTCW March Against Super Committee Medicare Cuts ABC 7

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Nov 182011
 
ABC 7's Elex Michaelson reports on ULTCW's Pershing Square march against the Super Committee's proposals to cut Medicare. Michaelson also reports briefly on ULTCW's continued support for Occupy LA. President Laphonza Butler, ULTCW activist Robb Robbins, andFull Rights for Immigrants Coalition's Juan Jose Gutierrez are featured.
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Shalala on Medicare Cuts, Penn State Scandal

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Nov 182011
 
Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami and a former Health and Human Services secretary, talks about ways to cut Medicare costs. Shalala, speaking on Bloomberg Television's &quot;InBusiness With Margaret Brennan,&quot; also discusses the child-sex scandal at Penn State University. (Source: Bloomberg)
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CBS Evening News – Supercommittee unable to agree on cuts

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Nov 172011
 
The Congressional supercommitte has only six days left to come up with a plan to trim $1.2 trillion from the national debt, and as Nancy Cordes reports, the two sides are at odds with each other resisting any form of compromise.
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99% Demand Sen. Kyl Support Jobs, NOT Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security!

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Nov 172011
 
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, a Republican supercommittee negotiator, has been asleep on the job when it comes to representing the 99% of Americans, groups sent dozens of protesters Thursday morning to a fundraiser breakfast he was speaking to deliver a message: "Wake up." AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Alliance for a Just Society, Alliance For Retired Americans, Campaign for America's Future, Center for Community Change, Caring Across Generations, Health Care for America Now, International Longshore And Warehouse Union, National Committee To Preserve Social Security and Medicare, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Nurses United, National People's Action, PICO Network, SEIU, Social Security Works and Strengthen Social Security Campaign.
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