"We find people gasping to get to that Medicare finish line at 65 if they were laid off at 62 or 64," he said.
Within two weeks, Mr. Scully said, the administration will issue proposed rules to help bring Medicare payments in line with prices charged in the market, for the limited number of drugs now covered by Medicare.
He has also advocated adding a prescription drug benefit to the traditional Medicare program, in line with his party, and has scoffed at the House Republican plan as "a pretend plan that even the insurance industry doesn't think will work".
With important programs like Social Security and Medicare on the line, there can be little doubt that working people are not represented in Washington.
Demand that the new Congress negotiate with Big Pharma new reimbursement rates for Medicare patients in line with the way the Veteran's Administration does.
4) Paul Ryan cooking the books on Medicare: Paul Ryan's line that the $716 billion in cost savings was taken to pay for Obamacare is an outright lie.
The GOP approach also depends on deep reductions in projected entitlement spending, particularly Medicaid, the 2010 healthcare law and, further down the line, Medicare.
Florida's Gov. Rick Scott also says he won't expand Medicaid, which is painfully ironic since he didn't mind government-funded health care when his company was bilking the Medicare program to line his own pockets.
