Medicare CPR
In less than a week the hysteria surrounding Rep. Paul Ryan s 2012 budget proposal has reached fever pitch. Seniors will be thrown off of Medicare, according to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). In fact, seniors will die, according to the newly installed chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Florida...

Rep. Ryan s proposed changes would be biggest yet for Medicare
When House Budget Chairman Paul Ryanannounced his plan to redefine Medicare, as part of a broader Republican budget proposal, he did not sketch in all the details. But the outlines make clear that his ideas would represent the biggest change to the federal health insurance program for the elderly since its creation nearly five decades ago.