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New Worries for Democrats on Health LawEssential Reads
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Florida Governor's Embrace of Medicaid Money Undercuts GOP Attacks on 'Obamacare'Essential Reads Bashing “Obamacare” just isn’t what it used to be. Just over two years ago, the rallying cry against President Obama’s health care overhaul unified Republicans and hoisted the party to historic electoral gains in state capitals and in Washington. |
With Gap Wide and Time Short, Obama and Boehner MeetEssential Reads With time running short to work out a deal to avert a year-end fiscal crisis, President Obama called Speaker John A. Boehner to the White House on Thursday evening to try to move talks forward even as pessimism mounted that a broad deal could be struck that bridges the substantial gap between the parties on taxes and entitlements like Medicare. |
‘Fiscal cliff’ talks bogged down by dispute over cost of retirement programsEssential Reads Negotiations to avert the year-end “fiscal cliff” advanced at a glacial pace Wednesday, with a dispute over how to tackle the soaring cost of federal retirement programs emerging as the latest roadblock to progress. |
AARP uses its power to oppose Social Security, Medicare benefit cuts for retireesEssential Reads AARP, the lobbying powerhouse for older Americans, last year made a dramatic concession. Amid a national debate over whether to overhaul Social Security, the group said for the first time it was open to cuts in benefits.The backlash from AARP members and liberal groups that oppose changes in the program was enormous — and this time around, as Washington debates how to tame the ballooning federal debt, AARP is flatly opposed to any benefit reductions for the nation’s retirees. |
On edge of brutal ‘fiscal cliff,’ some see an opportunity to end debt paralysisEssential Reads Two years ago this month, the leaders of a presidential commission rolled out a startling plan to dig the nation out of debt. After decades of profligacy, they said, Washington must tell people to work longer, pay higher taxes and expect less in retirement. |
On Economy, Romney Blurs ContrastEssential Reads Apparently Mitt Romney likes government regulation, loves Medicare the way it is, agrees fairly regularly with President Obama, and does not, in fact, want to cut taxes very much. Those are gross simplifications of Romney’s economic platform, and ones very much at odds with the antitax, antiregulation, pro-entitlement-reform campaign the former Massachusetts governor has waged for more than a year. |
Romney aims to neutralize Obama's narrativeEssential Reads Read Mitt’s lips: no new taxes on the middle class, no net tax decrease for high earners, no cuts in defense spending. |
Romney and Obama trade shots over tax-cut math, MedicareEssential Reads After a week in which Democrats repeatedly attacked his economic plan as beneficial to the rich and devastating to the poor, Republican nominee Mitt Romney insisted Sunday that his tax and budget proposals would help rebuild the middle class in America. |
Party takes risk on seniors planEssential Reads Rep. Paul Ryan signaled Wednesday that rather than running from Democratic attacks on Republican plans to overhaul Medicare, his party will carry the attack to President Barack Obama. |
