"Even if Republicans score a 1994-style landsline iNovemberer, how many votes could we muster to reopen the 'doughnut hole' and charge seniors more for prescription drugs?
Even if Republicans scored a 1994-style landsline iNovemberer, how many votes could we muster to re-open the "doughnut hole" and charge seniors more for prescription drugs?
THE SCRIPT THE REPUBLICAN AD -- Narrator: "On prescription medicines, compare: Al Gore will charge seniors a new $600-a-year government access fee.
In addition to slowing the cost of health care generally, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) limited the amount that insurance companies could charge seniors for healthcare.
For instance, hardly anyone is talking about how the legislation is expected to raise the cap on how much insurance companies can charge seniors compared to young people.
The legislation would allow insurers to charge seniors five times as much as young people (currently they can only charge three times as much) and would cut $880 billion from Medicaid over the next 10 years.
The bill would also defund Planned Parenthood for a year, allow health insurance companies to charge seniors more than they can under current law, and makes insurance more expensive for people who have gone more than 63 days without continuous coverage, among other changes.
The hearing took place amid reports that a whistle-blower within Central Command filed a formal complaint this summer charging senior officers with skewing intelligence data to portray false progress.
In recent years, clients have begun to rebel against the billable hour, and at being charged senior lawyers' rates for work done by juniors.
