…the GIs came home, tax rates were cut in 1946 and again in 1948, government spending dropped, and rationing and price controls went by the wayside. And as Figure 1…

…World War 2, which is also when the economy could best be described as a command economy. (Think tax rates above 90%, rationing, government directives, etc.) The years from 1932…

…in rationing even the most basic health care by socio-economic class–the very problem that Medicare, Medicaid, and the limited health care reforms undertaken by the last Congress were intended to…

…the same as cutting them out of healthcare altogether…at least the effect will be the same over time. Healthcare has grown at a rate far above inflation for years (6.2%…

…the year the economy bottomed out according to real GDP per capita figures, to 1949. And yet, price controls were lifted in 1946 and rationing was long gone. The production…

…and 1943, respectively. No wonder they imposed rationing of many goods, they just were not available. But civilian real GDP rebounded 0.4%, 17.4% and 58.5% in 1944, 1945 and 1946,…

…not. Physical therapists who provide Medicare services are now subject to a cap, amounting to rationing, for elderly patients. This capping system was instituted in 1997 but an annual fix…

…of national health care or insurance. She has given many reasons: rationing will kill your granny, drug companies need to charge the US more to subsidize drugs for the rest…

…private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange. [CarubaShook] This is a phenomenally stupid complaint from a right wing ideological perspective, and it lays…

…years if we leave the current system in place, (?$30,000 a year? for a family plan), and my wages increase about 15%, rationing and lack of coverage are guaranteed, including…