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Medicare

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Grassley’s Well-Intentioned Drug Plan Needs Some Tweaking

Dr. Don Racheter: With one of the highest Medicare beneficiary rates in the nation, Iowa stands to lose from the Grassley and House proposals more than most states.

Medicare for Bernie

Dr. Jane Orient: Bernie Sanders’ plan does not look like Medicare at all and it appears that he hardly knows anything about Medicare at all.

Crafting Compassionate Policy Is Not All About Increasing Government Spending

Kelvey Vander Hart: Advocating policy that increases government spending and scope in the name of compassion isn’t effective policymaking.

Retiring with Comfort and Happiness

Congressman David Young (R-Iowa): I won’t support cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits as we work in a bipartisan way to make sure these programs are solvent.

Can Democrats Save Entitlements And Healthcare?

Dr Jane Orient: It is not possible to save entitlements or medical care if the economic and social fabric of the country is destroyed by identity politics, class warfare, mob rule, and the shredding of constitutional protections for life, liberty, and property.

Socialism, Corporatism, and Destruction of Patient-Centered Medical Care

Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet: Neither socialism or corporatism is about serving individual patients. The collective or the corporation comes first.

Mission Possible: Saving Freedom in Medical Care

Dr. Marilyn Singleton: Independent medical practices will lead the way to achieve great affordable medical care through competition and consumer choice.

Disrupt This: Jettison Medicare and Medicaid

Dr. Marilyn Singleton: “Disruptive innovation” is all the buzz. Repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is so last year. Well, disrupt this: repeal Medicare and Medicaid and get the government out of the medical care business.

Patients and Physicians Unite: You Have Nothing to Lose but Your Chains

Dr. Marilyn Singleton: Congress, please act on a few simple reforms that will help everyone and hurt no one—except the drug lobbies and middlemen.

Evaluating Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ First Condition of the State Address

Shane Vander Hart evaluated Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ first Condition of the State Address and looked to see how she would separate herself from former Governor Terry Branstad.

The Scarlet Zero: MACRA Completes Government Takeover of Medicine

Dr. Kristin Held: In the 50 years since government vowed not to interfere with medicine whatsoever, it has almost completely taken us over.

Rod Blum: We Need to Fix Social Security and Medicare

Congressman Rod Blum (R-Iowa) released a video in response to attack ads paid for by Nancy Pelosi’s super PAC in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District race.

Politicians: The Snake Oil Salesman of Our Day

Steve Sherman: Our current “Snake Oil Salesman” don’t wear white suits and stand on the street corner, but they are just as brazen in their dishonesty.

Blum Campaign Releases New Ad with Chuck Grassley

Senator Chuck Grassley highlights Iowa 1st Congressional District candidate Rod Blum’s commitment to protecting and preserving Social Security and Medicare.

Bruce Braley’s Choice: ObamaCare or Middle Class

Bruce Braley had the opportunity to stand with Iowa’s middle class, but chose once again to stand with President Obama by voting no on defunding Obamacare.

Six Entitlement Fixes to Steer Away From Fiscal Cliff

The Heritage Foundation suggests six entitlement reforms that should receive bipartisan support in order to steer us away from the fiscal cliff before us.