What are your views about the TV ad stating that Senator Barbara Boxer voted to cut Medicare by 500 million?

[Camille]

When I saw that ad I immediately took down the phone number and called and was surprised at the response.
Her phone number in the ad is 415.403.0100

[Demsmierda]

Accurate.

She voted for Obama Care and it cuts 500 million from Medicare.

The elderly are in for some heartbreaks.

[SayAgain]

She did vote that way. But whats really funny is when she did that she and Obama were also talking about adding 20 - 30 million more people after cutting the 500 million and expect us to believe that health care under Medicare would get better. What a joke.

[Mastertrail748]

500 million well thats a start

[Mike Nicely]

Carly is going down, and not in a good way. I was very insulted when Carly favorably compared her pubic hair to Barbara's.

[Stanscrap]

Typical Republican half-truths and distortions. Obomacare doesn’t cut current Medicare spending. Rather, it reduces the growth of the program’s future spending. Over 10 years. You'd think the people who yell about the so-called "tax & spend" democrats would be HAPPY about something that cuts back on spending even if that was what it does. But it only cuts back on future increases.

By the way, if you still believe that Obomacare is going to result in cuts to Medicare benefits, you really out to be scared about what one of your own, the incomparable Republican candidate for Senator for the great state of Nevada, Sharon Angle wants to do. She wants to ELIMINATE Medicare AND Social Security! Now that's some serious benefit reducing, don't you think? Hell, she wants to do away with public schools too!

It's kind of amazing that anyone could watch a politcal commercial and believe anything it says!

[DALE M]

She did vote to cut medicare and Medicaid. when she voted for Obama-care. That was one of the things that was in the Obama-care Bill.

[flower]

What about it? A lot of Democrats voted to cut payments to Medicare Advantage providers. It was necessasry to do that because for years the Medicare had been paying for extras just to induce doctors to accept Medicare. The info I had from Dept of HHS about this said it will keep Medicare solvent 12 years longer, just this one action. They expect to recover the billions in fraudulent claims paid and then will restore the reimbursements.

If Barbara Boxer, an ultra social liberal voted for this, it had to be a good move. These are the facts about the so called cuts:

* Limits future payment increases to hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies

* Cuts funding for private Medicare Advantage program

* Gives $250 to Medicare enrollees for the so-called prescription doughnut hole; fills Medicare Part D doughnut hole over 10 years

* Boosts payments to primary care physicians

* Creates independent commission to recommend how to cut Medicare spending

* Offers bonuses to high-quality and efficient Medicare Advantage programs

* Funds pilot programs to cut down on waste and root out fraud in Medicare

About 25 percent of seniors, or 10 million people, are in a private Medicare Advantage plan, an alternative to traditional Medicare, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. The plans can offer added benefits and lower co-pays, but enrollees are subject to restrictions and provider networks of private insurers. The publicly subsidized plans cost the government 14 percent more than traditional Medicare plans.