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The Medicare Sky Is Falling (Part 2)

Congressional Budget Office forecasted a $950 billion generated over the next decade from the passage of healthcare reform. Two areas account for most of the savings and the third area…

The Medicare Sky Is Falling

…urgent after the Congressional Budget Office issued new estimates last September indicating that the Medicare trust fund would not go bankrupt until 1994.” The New York Times; January 20, 1985…

Some People Call Me Mau-rice

…yet but bears repeating, and a moment (5) of hope that really does required Congressional action, as Stan Collender noted today. But the three good points are things several of…

Fahrenthold 538

…classic schoolyard bullies,” said Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, “who throw punches — and then when you throw a punch back, they beg for…

Don’t savings lower the deficit?

…decidedly arcane rules of congressional budgeting. They include mopping up $2.5 billion in unused money from federal highway programs and $5 billion in fudged savings from capping payments from a…