Showing posts with label MediCare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MediCare. Show all posts
Emily Goff: Cut Government Spending To Help Economy?
Majority says yes. A recent Rasmussen poll
(subscription required) found that 65 percent of likely voters want the
government to cut spending to help alleviate the country’s economic
woes. Four years after the official end of the recession in June 2009, the economy is growing sluggishly. As The Wall Street Journal reports
today, the ... MOREHow Government Killed The Medical Profession
by Jeffrey A. Singer. I am a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. And I am fed up. Since the late 1970s, I have witnessed remarkable technological revolutions in medicine, from CT scans to robot-assisted surgery. But I have also watched as medicine slowly evolved into the domain of technicians, bookkeepers, ... MOREPaul Bedard: Support For Government Spending Plummets
Perhaps we are realizing it comes out of our hide? Facing an unsteady economy, the public has turned on federal spending for health care, job creation, environmental protection and even veterans' benefits, according to a new poll provided to Secrets. In its latest Obamacare poll, Public Opinion Strategies
found that Americans aren't just down ... MOREFeds Begin Lowering Expectations On ObamaCare
from the Washington Examiner editorials. A month before the final passage of his health care law, President Obama convened a summit the Blair House. During the staged event, which was aimed at resurrecting the bill, he touted the legislation's insurance exchanges. Obama said, "[I]f you join one of these exchanges, you will have choice and you'll ... MOREIf You're Reading This, You're Surviving The Sequester Cuts
by John Stossel. That may surprise you, since President Obama likened the sequester to taking a "meat cleaver" to government, causing FBI agents to be furloughed, prosecutors to let criminals escape and medical research to grind to a halt! The media hyped it, too. The NBC Nightly News said, "The sequester could cripple air travel, force ... MOREMichael Barone: Is The Entitlement Era Winding Down?
Are we on the threshold of a new period in U.S. history. It’s often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. In working on my forthcoming book on American migrations, internal and immigrant, it occurred to me that you could do this using the American-sounding interval of 76 years, ... MOREEmily Goff: 5 New Year's Resolutions For Congress In 2013
Resolving to do what's right. While many Americans resolve to make 2013 the year they really do
slim down, exercise more, and spend less, Congress could afford to
commit to a few such resolutions of its own. Call them budget resolutions—something Congress hasn’t had in a while. Here are five suggestions: 1. Cut spending. The federal government is ... MOREJohn Stossel - It's The Spending, Stupid!
Why the account is overdrawn by $16 trillion. Listening to progressive media pundits, I'd think the most evil man in the universe is Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform. His crime? He heads a movement that asks political candidates to pledge not to raise taxes. I think Grover accomplished a lot. But I wish he'd convinced ... MOREHow Much Taxation Would Fund Current Spending?
by Justin Hohn. To best understand this spending aspect of the current budget negotiations in Washington, we must answer one crucial question: how much taxation on the top income-earners would be required to fully fund the present level of government spending? To do so, we must first make the unreasonable assumption that the rich will not respond ... MOREWalter E Williams: Future Generations
Behaving like there is no tomorrow. Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior ... MORERituparna Basu: It's Time To Unplug Medicare's Third Rail
Time for a financial reckoning. This election Paul Ryan and other Republicans dared approach the
third rail that is Medicare, and Democrats upped the voltage, branding
Republicans every chance they got as wanting to “end Medicare as we know
it.” But whatever you thought of Ryan’s particular proposals for Medicare,
and whoever you voted for, there’s one ... MOREWhy $16,000,000,000,000 Only Hints At True U.S. Debt
by Chris Cox and Bill Archer. A decade and a half ago, both of us served on President Clinton's Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, the forerunner to President Obama's recent National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. In 1994 we predicted that, unless something was done to control runaway entitlement ... MORERobert Moffit & Alyene Senger: MediCare's 'Efficiency'
Private insurance has lower administrative costs. Everybody “knows” that government agencies are more efficient than private health insurance at delivering medical benefits and services. After all, Medicare’s administrative costs, at roughly 2 percent of the cost of benefits, are lower than those of private insurance. In the first presidential ... MOREJanice Green: Free Enterprise Is Ultimate Empowerment
The power to prosper. I have, earlier in my life, been simultaneously a
student, mother, employee, chauffeur, and
jack-of-all-family-related-trades, so I know how difficult it can be to
attend to all issues during a campaign season. However, it is especially concerning to me to hear women,
especially young women, announcing their intentions to ... MORE
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