Few Seniors Support GOP Plan To Restructure Medicare

Senior citizens, whose fierce opposition to the 2010 health overhaul law helped propel Republicans’ midterm election gains, have little appetite for the House GOP’s plans to turn Medicare into a voucher-type program that sends beneficiaries to private plans but limits the amount of federal funding, according to a poll released today. The survey this past month by the Kaiser Family Foundation found just 30 percent of seniors supported the idea of restructuring Medicare... Read More