Medicare & Medicaid - Government Health InsuranceNeed a one stop shop if you still haven't applied for health insurance coverage and are wondering what you need to do? Look no further. My hope is that this article will provide you everything you need to know to enroll in a health insurance plan before this years deadline. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the national poverty rate for the continental US (for 2014) is $11,670/year. That's for one person, living by themselves. For every extra person in the household, you add $4,060. The single greatest legislative accomplishment in the second half of the twentieth century came on July 30, 1965, the date President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments that created Medicare and Medicaid. July 30, 1965 is a day that will go down as one of America's greatest days. After a truly bipartisan vote in both the House of Representatives and the US Senate, an amendment to the Social Security Act setting up our nations first public health insurance program passed and was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
If you are going to watch one single documentary about higher education in the United States, you can do no better than CNN's 'Ivory Tower'. Is College Worth It? That's the question Director Andrew Rossi sets out to answer. The points made in this documentary are nuanced, and the answers are many. Of all the pieces of legislation that came about to help dig America out of the Great Depression, none had a greater impact than the Social Security Act. This single piece of legislation and subsequent amendments expanding the eligible number of recipients dramatically rewrote the social compact between the federal government and the citizens it governs. Laws that have broad bi-partisan support come few and far between, but the GI Bill that was passed in 1944 is one of those few bills that will bring together both the most ardently conservative and die hard liberal because it was a law designed to thank those who made the ultimate sacrifice in serving our country. It took the United States nearly two hundred years before it realized the importance of setting up a system for citizens who have become unable to work and need assistance to ensure they can still provide for themselves. Up until 1956 an individual who became disabled had little to no protections and had to rely on the help of others if they fell on hard times and couldn't work anymore.
Debunking Lies & Misinformation About Medicare & MedicaidFact Checking Articles on Medicare & Medicaid| Date | Article Name | About | |
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| 04/03/14 | The disputed math behind Medicaid expansion fight | Medicaid & Texas | |
| 03/17/14 | Boehner’s claim that Obamacare has resulted in a ‘net loss’ of people with health insurance | Medicaid, Obamacare & Health Insurance Industry | |
| 03/07/14 | Deep mysteries of the Medicaid expansion | Medicaid, Obamacare, Rick Scott & Florida | |
| 02/25/14 | Rick Scott opposed Medicaid expansion before he supported it | Medicaid, Rick Scott & Florida | |
| 02/23/14 | Scott Walker says federal government reneged on Medicaid payments to Wisconsin | Medicaid & Scott Walker | |
| 01/14/14 | Rubio’s claim that Medicaid expansion funds will ‘go away’ | Medicaid, Obamacare, Marco Rubio & Florida | |
| 01/10/14 | Medicaid Estate Recovery Program | Medicaid & Obamacare | |
| 01/01/14 | Illinois Medicaid Moving Forward in 2014 | Medicaid, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) & Illinois | |
| 12/31/13 | Stunning new report undermines central GOP Obamacare claim | Medicaid, Obamacare, 113th Congress Republicans, Health Insurance Industry & Millions Will Lose Health Insurance Under Obamacare | |
| 12/15/13 | Texas has highest uninsured rate and most uninsured children in country | Medicaid, Obamacare & Texas | |
Mitt Romney, in a conversation with private donors, voice his belief that 47% of Americans are "dependent on government" and who "believe they are victims" who will vote for Obama because they think they are "entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing." When Romney was confronted with the comment he stood by his words. Newt Gingrich publicly opposes Paul Ryan's budget proposal and take on reforming Medicare. He then flip flops on the issue when a majority of Republicans lash out at him.
Medicare and Medicaid News & Opinion Articles |  | Thu Feb 16, 2017 | vox.com
Deep uncertainty and serious divisions within the Republican coalition about the way forward on Obamacare have surfaced in the new Congress, and they’ve put the future of... |
|  | Tue Oct 27, 2015 | latimes.com
Social Security has long earned its status as "the third rail of American politics"--touch it, and your political career gets electrocuted.
But its immunity had seemed... |
|  | Tue Aug 25, 2015 | vox.com
Earlier this month, the government reported something incredible: Just 9.2 percent of Americans lack health insurance.
Why such big news? As I flagged at Forbes, it was... |
|  | Fri Jul 31, 2015 | thedailybeast.com
Every so often—okay, not very often actually, but more often than I hunt, or “take” (what a verb!), lions—I feel a little wistful about the Republican Party we all once... |
|  | Thu Jun 11, 2015 | thenation.com
RaDonna Kuekelhan and her sister, Cathy O’Mara, have spent their whole lives in and around southeast Kansas, a largely rural area wedged up against Oklahoma and Missouri.... |
|  | Fri Apr 03, 2015 | talkingpointsmemo.com
When it comes to health care at the Supreme Court this year, all eyes are focused on the Obamacare tax credits case, King v. Burwell. But a case decided this week,... |
|  | Thu Mar 19, 2015 | talkingpointsmemo.com
The House's top two leaders are on the verge of securing a sweeping deal to permanently fix a gaping hole in Medicare that has haunted Congress for more than a decade while... |
|  | Mon Mar 16, 2015 | huffingtonpost.com
More than 16 million Americans gained health coverage because of the Affordable Care Act, mainly via the law's health insurance exchange and Medicaid expansion, according... |
|  | Tue Oct 21, 2014 | theatlantic.com
Pity the poor Republican governor.
Take John Kasich of Ohio. He's caught between a state budget that has to be balanced every year, one of the least healthy state... |
|  | Mon Sep 29, 2014 | politico.com
Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the law has weathered a government shutdown, a Supreme Court challenge and scores of political attack ads. But... |
"I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it’s Social Security, whether it’s Medicaid, whether it’s Medicare. You’ve got $115 trillion worth of unfunded liability in those three. They’re bankrupt. They’re a Ponzi scheme."
Medicare & Medicaid Videos |  | Wed Oct 22, 2014
The Social Security Administration has announced the 2015 cost-of-living adjustment for beneficiaries. Those... |
|  | Wed Jul 30, 2014
Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley addressed the Senate on July 29, 2014, in support of the Medicare Protection Act,... |
|  | Tue Mar 04, 2014
While the Census Bureau's official poverty measure shows 9 percent of seniors nationally live in poverty, the share... |
|  | Mon Mar 03, 2014
I talk to Michele Johnson, executive director of the Tennessee Justice Center, about Medicaid expansion in TN at... |
|  | Mon Feb 03, 2014
After the Supreme Court ruled that states were not obligated to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable... |
|  | Fri Nov 08, 2013
"The White House is broadening its fight with states over Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, challenging them to cover... |
|  | Wed Nov 06, 2013
Sen. Bernie Sanders attacks Sen. David Vitter over Louisiana's decision to not accept Medicaid expansion. |
|  | Tue Nov 05, 2013
A month into the rollout of President Barack Obama's health care |
|  | Wed Oct 30, 2013
Tom Foreman explains how Obamacare is causing a surge in Medicaid enrollment. |
|  | Mon Oct 07, 2013
As the effects of the shutdown take hold, longer-term fights over safety net programs continue. Jeffrey Brown talks... |
|  | Mon Sep 09, 2013
What is Medicare? Learn more about Medicare and your options |
|  | Mon Jul 01, 2013
States Forgo Billions in Federal Cash by Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion. |
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