Kirkpatrick's Cuts: Say Hello to Your New Doctor -- The Government

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Ann Kirkpatrick's attack on Medicare continues.

When Kirkpatrick rammed through ObamaCare, she empowered an unelected board of government bureaucrats to cut costs and reduce care to seniors. Jonathan Paton is traveling Arizona's First Congressional District to talk to seniors about the impact of ObamaCare on Medicare.

"Kirkpatrick gave Washington bureaucrats unprecedented control over the personal medical decisions of Arizona seniors," said Jonathan Paton. "Kirkpatrick wants to make the government your doctor. I want to repeal ObamaCare and this board of Medicare-cutting bureaucrats. Seniors and their doctors should make decisions about their health care -- not the government."

Kirkpatrick's vote for ObamaCare also cut more than $700 billion from Medicare to pay for it. Jonathan Paton has pledged to preserve and protect Medicare and repeal these cuts, along with ObamaCare.

Obamacare:

Ann Kirkpatrick's vote for ObamaCare: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll165.xml
Kirkpatrick opposes repeal of ObamaCare: http://www.kirkpatrickforarizona.com/content/statement-us-supreme-court-decision-uphold-affordable-care-act
Jonathan Paton's pledge in April 2012 to protect and preserve Medicare: http://www.trivalleycentral.com/articles/2012/04/09/maricopa_monitor/top_stories/doc4f7f2db35cac0377699268.txt
The Independent Payment Advisory Board:

Bloomberg: "IPAB Would Reduce Access to Care, Witnesses Tell Ways and Means Panel"
Wall Street Journal: "…15 sages sitting in a room with the power of the purse will evidently find ways to control Medicare spending that no one has ever thought of before and that supposedly won't harm seniors' care, even as the largest cohort of the baby boom generation retires and starts to collect benefits."
Impact of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, The Henry Kaiser Family Foundation: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/stories/2011/may/09/ipab-faq.aspx
More than $700 billion in cuts:

Latest report from the Congressional Budget Office: http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43472-07-24-2012-CoverageEstimates.pdf
Barack Obama's deputy campaign manager acknowledges cuts: (Youtube)
Barack Obama admitted in 2009 that 1/3 of ObamaCare's funding comes from cuts to Medicare: (Youtube)
Nancy Pelosi brags about cuts to Medicare: "You don't have to have cuts in those initiatives in order to reduce cost there, and we have proven that we're willing to make cuts in the cost to initiatives. We took half a trillion dollars out of Medicare in the Affordable Care Act, the health care bill, already, and there's certainly more opportunities for savings in that respect." (Remarks from Nancy Pelosi, CNBC's "Closing Bell", 10/29/2011)
Number of Arizona seniors on Medicare: http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?cat=6&sub=74&rgn=4

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