This bill would end Medicare as we know it, replacing it with a voucher system for seniors to buy health insurance coverage on the open market. Actuaries say the amount of the vouchers would not be enough for seniors to replace the coverage they would lose with the end of Medicare. [more]
This bill would end Medicare as we know it, replacing it with a voucher system for seniors to buy health insurance coverage on the open market. Actuaries say the amount of the vouchers would not be enough for seniors to replace the coverage they would lose with the end of Medicare. [more]
On Passage - House - H.R. 3961 Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 [more]
Michael F. Doyle: my good friend from michigan, john dingell, helped write the law that created medicare and he authored this health care reform bill we vote on today. this bill protects seniors and givers all americans access to quality, affordable health insurance. this bill will start to close the medicare prescription drug doughnut hole and ban insurance companies from dropping people
Nick Name: Mike
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Birth Date: 8/5/1953
Birth Place: Pittsburgh
Spouse: Wife, Susan
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