Johnny Isakson, United States Senator from Georgia


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, December 4, 2009 Isakson Votes to Preserve Medicare Advantage Program for 11 Million Seniors WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today voted for an amendment that would have prevented the Democrats’ health care plan from cutting $120 billion from the Medicare Advantage program, which serves about 11 million seniors nationwide. Senate Democrats defeated the amendment by Senator Orin Hatch, R-Utah, by a vote of 41-57. “Our seniors rely on the Medicare Advantage program for coverage of essentials such as dental care, eye glasses, hearing aids and flu shots. The Democrats want to slash this vital program for seniors by $120 billion and use that money instead to help fund their terribly flawed, outrageously expensive, government-run health care system. I cannot in good conscience allow that to happen and I will continue to vote to protect our seniors,” Isakson said. ###
E-mail: http://isakson.senate.gov/contact.cfm Washington: United States Senate, 120 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510 Tel: (202) 224-3643 Fax: (202) 228-0724 Atlanta: One Overton Park, 3625 Cumberland Blvd, Suite 970, Atlanta, GA 30339 Tel: (770) 661-0999 Fax: (770) 661-0768

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, December 4, 2009

Isakson Votes to Preserve Medicare Advantage Program for 11 Million Seniors

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today voted for an amendment that would have prevented the Democrats’ health care plan from cutting $120 billion from the Medicare Advantage program, which serves about 11 million seniors nationwide.

Senate Democrats defeated the amendment by Senator Orin Hatch, R-Utah, by a vote of 41-57.

“Our seniors rely on the Medicare Advantage program for coverage of essentials such as dental care, eye glasses, hearing aids and flu shots. The Democrats want to slash this vital program for seniors by $120 billion and use that money instead to help fund their terribly flawed, outrageously expensive, government-run health care system. I cannot in good conscience allow that to happen and I will continue to vote to protect our seniors,” Isakson said.

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E-mail: http://isakson.senate.gov/contact.cfm

Washington: United States Senate, 120 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-3643 Fax: (202) 228-0724
Atlanta: One Overton Park, 3625 Cumberland Blvd, Suite 970, Atlanta, GA 30339
Tel: (770) 661-0999 Fax: (770) 661-0768