Medicare

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to strip the hospital’s federal “critical access” designation, a status that has provided Glenn Medical increased reimbursement and regulatory flexibility.

This means we’re headed for a critical shortage of working people who pay into Social Security and Medicare even as the number of retirees balloons.

On health care, Jenkins said she supports expanding the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid, but stopped short of expressing support for a single-payer health care system or a public option.

Mehmet Oz, who heads Medicare and Medicaid, asserted on Fox News in July that “Today the average able-bodied person on Medicaid who doesn’t work, they watch 6.1 hours of television or just hang out.”

Dr. Oz, no stranger to medical quackery, is in charge of overseeing Medicaid and Medicare services.