…that neither the Medicare Act nor the ACA requires healthcare providers to accept Medicare insurance. These healthcare professionals are no more required by law to accept Medicare patients than they…

…love to see Sanders have an economist like Uwe Reinhardt or Joseph Stiglitz compute what the cost to individuals receiving Medicare would be now if there were no Medicare. Especially…

…then skip to talking about (mumble) “socialsecurityplusmedicare” without bothering to mention that you have done so, or pointing out that Medicare is a very different kind of problem than Social…

…bother to read the label. It’s not a chart of total foreign aid, just humanitarian aid — which is about one-sixth of one percent of federal spending. Overall, by the way, America…

…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…

…a few days after Jane but first seemed to use the label ‘Catfood Commission’ in connection with the attempt to attach Conrad-Gregg to the Debt Limit Bill in this post…

…(click and search for “increase spending”), marijuana, taxes on the wealthy and corporations, , Medicare, and Medicaid, and Medicare-for-all (click and search). The surprising support for Sanders is not all…

…the right-wing think tanks’ output. It is nothing less than dismantling the protections established under FDR–Social Security, Medicare, minimum wage and other safety net protections that are nonetheless thinner than…

…to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid. Every member of Congress must tell Musk and Trump: Hands off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. “Elon Musk’s threat to Social Security benefits,” Nancy…

…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,…