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New Social Security Office Opening in Anderson 17 Aug 2012 | 11:30 pm
Photo - Anderson Independent Mail The Anderson Social Security office will have a new address on Monday, August 27th. The new facility, located on Civic Center B...
Getting the 'Politifacts' Right 15 Aug 2012 | 07:10 pm
Politifact this afternoon issued a “ruling” calling Mostly False a statement that Obamacare utilized Medicare funds to pay for its coverage expansions. The Politifact piece claims -- correctly -- tha...
Pharmacies Join Obamacare Propaganda Campaign 15 Aug 2012 | 05:00 pm
The Hill reports this afternoon that several major pharmacies “will promote [Obamacare]…to seniors,” providing brochures about all the law’s supposed new benefits. In a conference call announcing the...
Barack Obama vs. Barack Obama on Medicare 15 Aug 2012 | 04:25 pm
Barack Obama, in a speech today: “My plan already extends Medicare by more than a decade.” Barack Obama, in an interview on March 17, 2010: “You can’t say that you are saving on Medicare and then spe...
Staff for Senator DeMint to Bring Mobile Office to Newberry 15 Aug 2012 | 01:00 am
Columbia, S.C. – The staff for U.S. Senator Jim DeMint will provide a mobile office for the Newberry area on Friday, August 17, 2012. Mary Catherine Smith – Constituent Service Representative and Jes...
Obama's Medicare 'Plan' in One Chart 15 Aug 2012 | 12:40 am
Amidst various claims by liberals that President Obama has a Medicare reform plan, it’s worth re-sending a chart first released at the time of this year’s Medicare trustees report. Under President Ob...
Fact Checking David Axelrod on...Everything 13 Aug 2012 | 11:50 pm
Speaking on ABC’s This Week yesterday, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod made a series of misleading statements about Obamacare and the House Republican budget. Take for instance the claims made i...
Two Reasons Democrats DON'T Have a Medicare Plan 13 Aug 2012 | 04:45 pm
Ezra Klein has a post this afternoon in which he claims that Democrats have a plan to reform Medicare, but that this plan is fundamentally different from the vision conservatives have put forward. To...
Obamacare's Funny Money 10 Aug 2012 | 11:25 pm
This morning the New York Times reports on the confusion and uncertainty regarding Obamacare’s medical-loss ratio rebates. Some individuals in employer plans have received notices that their plans wi...
A Modest Proposal for E.J. Dionne 9 Aug 2012 | 11:15 pm
E.J. Dionne’s Thursday column for the Washington Post, which expounds on the supposed virtues of Obamacare, asks conservatives to return any medical loss rebate checks they received to support the pri...
