WASHINGTON TIMES SCANLON: Picking seniors’ pockets AARP doesn’t care about elderly members By Terrence Scanlon Terrence Scanlon is president of the Capital Research Center. May 28, 2012 I’m going to come right out and say it: AARP is about money and power. That’s all it’s interested in. Formerly known as the American Association of Retired […]
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Updated March 23, 2012, 7:37 p.m. ET The Democrat Who Took on the Unions Rhode Island’s treasurer Gina Raimondo talks about how she persuaded the voting public, labor rank-and-file and a liberal legislature to pass the most far-reaching pension reform in decades. By ALLYSIA FINLEY Providence, R.I. So this is Gina Raimondo? The state treasurer
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March 16, 2012, 6:36 p.m. ET Notable & Quotable Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer on the medical profession’s move from the Hippocratic oath toward the “veterinary ethic.” Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer writing March 15 at Reason.com: For centuries, my predecessors and I have been inculcated with what has come to be called the “Hippocratic Ethic.” This
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES ARMSTRONG: Obamacare grants doctors liberty to withhold care Plan rewards physicians for scrimping on treatment By Dr. Richard A. Armstrong – Tuesday, February 14, 2012 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: The law promotes a “new” model, the Accountable Care Organization (ACO), in which an entity that covers a specified number of Medicare patients
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representative Renee Elmers, Republican, North Carolina District 2
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NOVEMBER 1, 2011 Cooking the Books on Grandma’s Health Care Medicare patients who get less care have a higher risk of dying. Don’t believe the hype that implies otherwise. By BETSY MCCAUGHEY The British medical journal Lancet reported last month that 32% of elderly American patients undergo surgery in the year before they die, a
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NEWS & OBSERVER Fri, Sep 16, 2011 Positively Ponzi BY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER – Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON The Great Social Security Debate, Proposition 1: Of course it’s a Ponzi scheme. In a Ponzi scheme, the people who invest early get their money out with dividends. But these dividends don’t come from any profitable or
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER York: Keep your health plan? Don’t count on it byByron York Chief Political Correspondent August 26, 2011 President Barack Obama address the American Medical Association during their annual meeting in Chicago, Monday, June 15, 2009 where he vowed, “No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American
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Published on FINANCIAL SENSE (http://www.financialsense.com) By James Quinn Created 15 Aug 2011 The utter failure of QE2, hollow Congressional spending “cuts” that will keep the National Debt on track towards $23 trillion by 2021, S&P downgrade and recent plunge in the stock market are the first cracks in the façade of the great American Empire.
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NEWS&OBSERVER The grand bargain to be had By Charles Krauthammer – Washington Post Writers Group Published in: Other Views August 6, 2011 WASHINGTON Conventional wisdom holds that the congressional super-committee established by the debt-ceiling deal to propose further deficit reduction will go nowhere. I’m not so sure. There is a grand compromise to be had.
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