…costs of Social Security and Medicare as 8.96% of that. Table VI.F4 gives the intermediate (most likely) estimate of the combined cost of Social Security and Medicare to be 7.66%…

…important reinvestments in Medicare and Medicaid, including phasing in the closing of the “donut” hole in the Medicare drug benefit. The bill’s long-term reform of Medicare’s physician fee schedule to…

…did not help either as it resulted in more spending. Food companies also added to the issues with increasing prices and cutting package sizes. Can’t label them Schooner Tuna examples,…

…the GOP attempt to label the Dems as the tax-and-spend party, the GOP turned out to be the tax-cut-and spend-anyway party. Government grew under Bush, even while revenues shrank. The…

…kitchen-table issues, including energy and Medicare. His website is heavy on biography and light on policy. He’s trying to run as a generic, largely uncontroversial Democratic candidate who, as one…