Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier today, U.S. Senator John Cornyn spoke on the Senate floor urging Senate Democrats to protect seniors from Medicare cuts to fund Obamacare. The Senator’s remarks come as the Administration makes changes to Medicare Advantage that will cause premiums to increase, reduce choices and result in seniors losing access to the health care plans they were promised they could keep.
The full video can be seen here, and excerpts of his remarks are below.
“Earlier this month I joined with 39 of my colleagues here in the Senate to send a letter to C.M.S. Administrator Marilyn Tavenner urging her to maintain payment levels that will allow Medicare Advantage beneficiaries to be protected from disruptive changes in 2015.
“Our letter describes Medicare Advantage as a great success, noting that one study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that hospital readmission rates for Medicare Advantage enrollees are 13-to-20% lower than for Medicare Fee-for-Service.
“Now the Members who signed this letter weren’t just folks who work on this side of the aisle, they included several prominent Democrats, such as my two colleagues from New York; the Senior Senator from Minnesota; the Junior Senator from Massachusetts; the Junior Senator from Oregon and from Washington state and from Colorado, who also happens to be the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.”
Senator Cornyn serves on the Finance and Judiciary Committees. He serves as the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee’s Immigration, Refugees and Border Security subcommittee. He served previously as Texas Attorney General, Texas Supreme Court Justice, and Bexar County District Judge.
