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U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski Wednesday questioned Medicare's top fraud prevention official about how safeguards failed to prevent a doctor in Indiana from prescribing more than $1 million in opioids to 108 patients under Medicare's prescription drug program.
House Republicans on Tuesday unveiled a budget that makes deep cuts in food stamps and other social safety net programs while boosting military spending by billions, a blueprint that pleases neither conservatives nor moderates.
Republicans in Washington have been clamoring for years to address the long-term financial problems of Social Security and Medicare. On Thursday, the trustees who oversee the programs are scheduled to issue their annual warning about the finances of the federal government's two largest benefit programs.
Republicans in Washington have been clamouring for years to address the long-term financial problems of Social Security and Medicare. On Thursday, the trustees who oversee the programs are scheduled to issue their annual warning about the finances of the federal government's two largest benefit programs.
Robert B. Reich is an economist and political commentator who served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. He is currently Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
The new healthcare bill is expected to include Sen. Ted Cruz's amendment allowing insurance companies to offer plans to do not satisfy all of Obamacare's requirements for essential care as long as they have at least one plan that does. But some centrist Republicans have voiced concerns that the amendment might make care for those with pre-existing conditions prohibitively expensive.
The GOP health bills would eliminate the 10 percent tax on the use of tanning beds. It was one of more than a dozen taxes introduced as part of the Affordable Care Act.
The choice between repeal of the Affordable Care Act and Medicare for All is likely to be the major domestic issue in the presidential campaign of 2020. As Republicans in Congress move to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Democrats are moving toward Medicare for All - a single-payer plan that builds on Medicare and would cover everyone at far lower cost.
Health care, or the lack thereof, is a perennial topic in the news and in letters to the editor. Perhaps we should review how the United States, inarguably home to the best health care in the world, is now faced with such an imbalance between value and cost.
Democrats who are giddily munching popcorn while watching Republicans struggle with trying to repeal Obamacare may want to put down the tub. They are on the verge of adopting a politically analogous health care plank, one designed to rev up their ideological base in the next campaign, but destined to make the party suffer once in power.
On June 28, hundreds traveled to Sacramento for an emergency protest against Speaker Rendon's efforts to kill SB 562 for this year. This is one of the rallies held outside as others went inside the Capitol to lobby legislators.
Embodying the conservative movement's sentiments at the time was Ronald Reagan, who taped a recording on behalf of the American Medical Association warning that the program would, quite simply, lead to the destruction of freedom. If opponents failed to scuttle it, he warned.
The organization dedicated to lobbying for older Americans over 50 years old took issue not only with some of the cuts the legislation would make but also the circumstances in which it was devised. "This new Senate bill was crafted in secrecy behind closed doors without a single hearing or open debate-and it shows," AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond said in a statement.
John Kasich and six other governors offered good advice to the Senate leadership last week on how to advance repair of the Affordable Care Act. The Ohio governor and his counterparts from Colorado, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada and Pennsylvania reminded that "true and lasting reforms are best approached by finding common ground in a bipartisan fashion."
The Democracy Fund Voter Study Group has a new survey of the electorate that explodes many of the myths that we believe about American politics. Lee Drutman has a fascinating report delving into the data.
They're trying to scale back major benefit programs being used by millions of people. And they're trying to do it even though much of the public is leery of drastic changes, and there's no support outside the GOP.
President Donald Trump's proposed budget for fiscal 2018 is being condemned, right and left, for the cuts it imposes on various federal programs. Medicare covers physician services, hospitalization and prescription drugs for seniors over 65 ; in 2015, its total cost was $646.2 billion.
The hysteria over President Trump's budget cuts is interesting considering that one of my main complaints is that it doesn't cut enough spending. Moreover, some big spending programs that are driving our future debt have been pretty much left untouched.