WALL STREET JOURNAL JANUARY 7, 2011 GOP Governors Seek Leeway to Cut Medicaid Rolls By JANET ADAMY Republican governors are pressing the Obama administration to make it easier for states to cut Medicaid enrollment, setting up a fight over one of states’ costliest programs. On Friday, 33 Republican governors and governors-elect plan to send a […]
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Dear MoveOn member, “Look, I know MoveOn usually works on national issues, but the Republicans have taken over, and we really need your help.” That was the message I got last week from a leading progressive in the state legislature in my home state of Maine. I could hear the urgency in her voice—and we’re
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Government by regulation. Shhh. By Charles Krauthammer Friday, December 31, 2010; Most people don’t remember Obamacare’s notorious Section 1233, mandating government payments for end-of-life counseling. It aroused so much anxiety as a possible first slippery step on the road to state-mandated late-life rationing that the Senate never included it in the final health-care law. Well,
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NEW YORK TIMES December 24, 2010 WASHINGTON When a proposal to encourage end-of-life planning touched off a political storm over “death panels,” Democrats dropped it from legislation to overhaul the health care system. But the Obama administration will achieve the same goal by regulation, starting Saturday. Under the new policy, outlined in a Medicare regulation,
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Our burgeoning budget and the politics of avoidance By Robert J. Samuelson Monday, November 22, 2010; America’s budget problem boils down to a simple question: How much will we let programs for the elderly displace other government functions – national defense, education, transportation and many others – and raise taxes to levels that would, almost
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 How Medicare Killed the Family Doctor Low government payment rates became the private-sector benchmark, resulting in fragmented care. By RICHARD M. HANNON I work for a health-insurance company, and my brother is a primary-care physician. As he tells it, my industry is responsible for the death of his. Insurance companies, he argues,
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From Self-Reliance to Servitude Published on October 21, 2010 by Edwin Feulner, Ph.D. We use a variety of yardsticks to judge whether our country is on the right track. Is inflation up? Has unemployment dropped? What’s the stock market doing today? Here’s another one: Are Americans, who have long prided themselves on their freedom and
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Obama murdered Medicare But the market can bring her back to life By Thomas R. Saving and John C. Goodman – The Washington Times October 15, 2010 The health care reform law enacted in spring will have a devastating impact on elderly and disabled Medicare enrollees if its provisions are not substantially changed. The law
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WASHINGTON POST Obama must slay the job-killing beast By Mitt Romney Wednesday, November 3, 2010; President Obama could have focused on solving the financial crisis. He did not. He could have endeavored to conquer the looming threats to our future. Instead, he added to them. Now that voters have rejected his first two years in
OCTOBER 28, 2010 There They Went Again The 111th Congress fits a familiar Democratic pattern. Democrats and their allies are already rationalizing their likely defeat next Tuesday, variously blaming the economy, GOP obstructionism, corporate money, or an inexplicable collapse in President Obama’s communications skills. Whatever minor truth lies in these excuses, they obscure the larger
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