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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: LIMA NEWS EDITORIAL
Nov 10, 2009
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Washington claims 640,000 to 1.5 million jobs have been created or saved by the $787 billion economic stimulus plan. With only about 15 percent of the money spent so far by those intended to receive it, at this rate America might implausibly end up with more new jobs than available workers. Has ...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: COLUMBUS DISPATCH EDITORIAL: Cooking the books
Nov 4, 2009
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The closer Congress comes to passing some kind of health-care overhaul, the clearer it becomes that lawmakers have no intention of being honest about the balance sheet. The proposed overhaul now before the U.S. Senate is touted as having a cost of $829 billion in its first decade, including an $81 b...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL: The Worst Bill Ever
Nov 2, 2009
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told fellow Democrats that she's prepared to lose seats in 2010 if that's what it takes to pass ObamaCare, and little wonder. The health bill she unwrapped last Thursday, which President Obama hailed as a "critical milestone," may well be the worst piece of post-N...
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: A GOP health plan
Oct 28, 2009
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Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate have spent the spring, summer and fall grappling with how to fix the health care system. They're still trying to craft a bill they can sell to Americans -- or even explain in plain English.And the Republicans? Well, as the minority party, they're mainly on the ...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: COLUMBUS DISPATCH EDITORIAL: Honest accounting
Oct 19, 2009
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The Dispatch does not have room to publish all letters to the editor. Many appear online only. Click here to read them.When the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday approved the so-called Baucus bill to overhaul health care, it was hailed as a historic occasion. More realistically, it's just a pause ...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: FORBES OP/ED: Obama's Medicare Disadvantage
Sep 29, 2009
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Medicare Advantage is a recently instituted federal program that allows individuals eligible for Medicare to opt to take their coverage from a private carrier, such as a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) of Preferred Provider Organization (PPO). These MA deals usually offer somewhat better cover...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL:Medicare and Gag Orders
Sep 24, 2009
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Maybe Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus should put a gag order on Douglas Elmendorf too. On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office director told Mr. Baucus's committee that its plan to cut $123 billion from Medicare Advantage—the program that gives almost one-fourth of seniors private health-insu...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: NEWARK ADVOCATE OP/ED:AARP Ohio is asking Congress to adopt real health care reform
Aug 20, 2009
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This year, AARP has been working with leaders of both parties to pass essential, bipartisan legislation that will provide older Americans access to affordable, quality health care. We are aggressively working toward 1) protecting Medicare benefits; 2) ending discrimination based on age or pre-existi...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: NEWARK ADVOCATE EDITORIAL: Government should take time to do health care right
Aug 16, 2009
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The healthy debate occurring across America over how we pay for health care for everyone has focused on a myriad of real issues, including our lack of trust in the federal government’s ability to do much of anything it promises.But little has been said about the government’s even more amazing abilit...
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: COLUMBUS DISPATCH EDITORIAL: THE PROGNOSIS
Aug 9, 2009
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A story on the front page of Friday’s Wall Street Journal is a cautionary tale about government-run health care. The story detailed how the government of France is struggling to force efficiencies and cost control onto the French health-care system, which has run in the red for the past 20 years. I...
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