#NVSen: Heller Ad Shows Berkley Raids Medicare by $1 Trillion

 Steals from Seniors to Pay for More Big Government Programs

(Las Vegas, NV) – Heller for Senate released a new ad today that shows how seven-term Congresswoman Shelley Berkley has used her time in Congress voting to strip more than one trillion dollars from Medicare to fund big government programs. The ad shows that Shelley Berkley is the only candidate in this race that has established a pattern of cutting funds from Medicare, despite all of Shelley Berkley’s press conferences, press releases and rhetoric claiming otherwise.

“Shelley Berkley doesn’t really like dealing with facts, especially since she’s based her entire campaign on the ‘Lie of the Year.’ But the fact is that seven-term Congresswoman Shelley Berkley has voted to raid the Medicare program by one trillion dollars over the course of her fourteen years in Congress.  Shelley Berkley has repeatedly broken her commitment to Nevada seniors and has, over and over again, used this vital program as a piggy bank to pay for more big government programs.  Maybe Shelley Berkley was just hoping no one would notice, but when Medicare goes bankrupt in just over ten years, believe me, Shelley Berkley, Nevada seniors will notice,” said Chandler Smith, Heller for Senate spokeswoman.

1)      Fact: “A trillion dollars.  That’s how much Shelley Berkley voted to cut from Medicare.”

·         Cut 1: $193 billion – H.R. 3162; Vote #787, Aug. 1, 2007; “Estimated Effect on Direct Spending and Revenues of H.R. 3162, the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act, for the Rules Committee,” Congressional Budget Office, Aug. 1, 2007

·         Cut 2: $716 billion – ObamaCare; Vote #165, H.R. 3590; Vote #167, H.R. 4872, March 21, 2010; Letter to the Honorable John Boehner, Congressional Budget Office, July 24, 2012

·         Cut 3: $123 billion – Budget Control Act; Vote #690, S 365, Aug. 1, 2011; “Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act,” Congressional Budget Office, Sept. 12, 2011

2)      Fact: “She voted to cut two hundred billion in 2007.”

·         Shelley Berkley voted for H.R. 3162, which raided the Medicare program by $193 billion in order to pay for more big government programs. (Vote #787, HR 3162, Aug. 1, 2007)

Excerpts from the CBO cost analysis below:

·         TITLE IV — MEDICARE ADVANTAGE REFORMS

Total, Title IV      2008 – 2017:  -$157.0 billion

·         TITLE V — PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEDICARE PART A

Total, Title V       2008-2017:  -$15.8 billion

·         TITLE VI — OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEDICARE PART B

Total, Title VI      2008-2017:  -$12.0 billion

·         TITLE VII — PROVISIONS RELATING TO MEDICARE PARTS A AND B

Total, Title VII    2008-2017:  -$8.1 billion

(“Estimated Effect on Direct Spending and Revenues of H.R. 3162, the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act, for the Rules Committee,” Congressional Budget Office, Aug. 1, 2007)

Fact: “Seven Hundred billion cut from our Medicare to pay for ObamaCare.”

·         Shelley Berkley voted for ObamaCare, which took funds from Medicare to pay for other parts of the bill (Vote #165, HR 3590, Vote #167 HR 4872, March 21, 2010).

·         The total cost to the Medicare program is $716 billion. (Letter to the Honorable John Boehner, Congressional Budget Office, July 24, 2012

http://cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/43471-hr6079.pdf)

Fact: “One hundred billion more just last year.”

·         Shelley Berkley voted for the Budget Control Act (Vote #690, S 365, Aug. 1, 2011), which mandated 2 percent cuts to the Medicare program at an estimate cost of $123 billion.

·         From the CBO cost estimate: “Reductions of 2.0 percent each year in most Medicare spending because of the application of a special rule that applies to that program, producing savings of $123 billion, and reductions ranging from 7.8 percent (in 2013) to 5.5 percent (in 2021) in mandatory budgetary resources for other nonexempt nondefense programs and activities, yielding savings of $47 billion. Thus, savings in nondefense mandatory spending would total $170 billion.” (“Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act,” Congressional Budget Office, Sept. 12, 2011)

Fact: “And Shelley Berkley’s attacks against Dean Heller?”  “They were named Lie of the Year.”

·         “Lie of the Year 2011:  ‘Republicans voted to end Medicare,’” www.PolitiFact.com, Dec. 20, 2011

Fact: “Shelley Berkley.  A trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare.”

·         Cut 1: $193 billion – H.R. 3162; Vote #787, Aug. 1, 2007; “Estimated Effect on Direct Spending and Revenues of H.R. 3162, the Children’s Health and Medicare Protection Act, for the Rules Committee,” Congressional Budget Office, Aug. 1, 2007

·         Cut 2: $716 billion – ObamaCare; Vote #165, H.R. 3590; Vote #167, H.R. 4872, March 21, 2010; Letter to the Honorable John Boehner, Congressional Budget Office, July 24, 2012

·         Cut 3: $123 billion – Budget Control Act; Vote #690, S 365, Aug. 1, 2011; “Estimated Impact of Automatic Budget Enforcement Procedures Specified in the Budget Control Act,” Congressional Budget Office, Sept. 12, 2011

Learn the difference between Dean Heller and Shelley Berkley: http://deanheller.com/Difference