Tampa area Congresswoman Kathy Castor has been as relentless a critic as any Democrat in the country in bashing the Paul Ryan led GOP House budget plan that would end Medicare as its currently constituted and turn it into a voucher program.
She still feels that way, as she referenced a new report on Wednesday produced by Democratic staffers from the House Energy and Commerce Committee that would negatively affect those people 54 years of age and younger currently living in the Tampa Bay area.
However, she did confirm that she is no longer supporting what up to now has been a Democratic talking point when charged that they have no solution on how to reduce Medicare costs – the 15 member Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) – created by the federal health care reform bill that would be charged with the task of controlling Medicare spending.
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.