Orrin Hatch: “The reason CHIP’s (Children’s Health Insurance Program) having trouble is we don’t have any money anymore… I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves, won’t lift a finger, and expect the federal government to do everything.” More …
Month: December 2017
Paul Ryan Trying to Talk Trump Into Cutting Medicare
Paul Ryan: “We’re going to have to get back next year at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit… Frankly, it’s the health-care entitlements that are the big drivers of our debt, so we spend more time on the health-care entitlements — because that’s really where the problem lies, fiscally speaking.” More …
Crippling Medicare Is Paul Ryan’s Next Goal
“The GOP intends to cripple Medicare — which serves 55 million Americans — and the party’s deficit-boosting tax reform bill is the first installment in its three-part strategy.” More …