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With the freezing of Medicare Advantage payments in 2011, Congress has set the stage for a progressive reduction in seniors’ access to, and choice of, the popular Medicare Advantage health plans.

Republicans say a new health-care brochure for seniors financed with Medicare funds looks more like taxpayer-funded propaganda than straight information. Republican leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor Tuesday to call the flyer an “outrage.”

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that the House Republican leadership is “committed to repealing the health care law” if Republicans win a majority in the House in the November elections.

Obama says people will get to keep their job-based plans if they want to; the actuary says 14 million people will lose their employer coverage, many of whom would certainly rather keep it than switch into an untested program. The president says the new law will improve the budget outlook; in so many words, the chief actuary says, don’t bet on it.

Popularity of Obamacare continues to slide as more people understand the dire consequences of its full ramifications.

In choosing Berwick, the Obama administration is implicitly admitting that the health care law passed by the Democrats in March will lead to the rationing of health care, said Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) in a May 19 press release.

Angoff is a class-action litigator who specialized in and made millions by suing insurance companies for “price gouging.” As insurance commissioner of Missouri he was famous for going after insurers he believed had too much in reserve (too profitable).

The truth is the public option is alive and well, residing in Section 1334, pages 97-100, of the new health care law. That section gives the U.S. Office of Personnel Management — which presently manages the federal civil service — new responsibilities: establishing and running two entirely new government health insurance programs to compete directly with private insurance companies in every state with coverage for people outside of government.

Senator tells Greta Obamacare based on lies as shown by new CBO report. Their plan is to get to total government healthcare.

At issue is Obama’s choice to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor with a self-professed love affair with Britain’s socialized health care system. In his writings and speeches, Berwick has defended government rationing and advocated centralized budget caps on health care spending.