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Republican Study Committee targets senior programs for budget cuts Sept. 22, 2005 – In a stunning announcement yesterday, the Republican Study Committee recommended shifting a big portion of the cost of Hurricane Katrina to the backs of America’s senior citizens. Recommended program cuts impacting seniors include delaying the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, increase Medicare Part B Premium from 25% to 30%, impose a home health co-payment of 10%, reduce Medicaid administrative spending, increase allowable co-pays in Medicaid, block grant Medicaid acute services, base new Federal Retiree Health on length of service, restructure Medicare's cost-sharing requirement and update the formula used...

I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! The Baby Boomers are coming! For years and years, those of us who are old, and those before us who were old, have kept quiet, not questioning, not asking. Sometimes this was out of fear. If I complain about senior housing, they may throw me out. If I complain about my checks, they may stop coming. And, of course I must never complain or, heaven forbid, question my doctor because 1) he is so busy, or 2) he will get upset with me, or 3) he is God. With more and...

President Bush began talking about the need for personal Social Security accounts when he was a candidate. He has continued to advocate that we can save Social Security by using the power of the market to increase savings far better than government can. Now New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu and Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan have introduced in Congress what may become the most sweeping, visionary, breakthrough legislation to help enrich working people in my lifetime. It is well documented that if nothing is done to fix Social Security before the baby boomers retire, payroll taxes would have to increase...