…solution other than indenture. Alan: Also, any cancellation program would be administered by the Department of Education, which has a well-documented history of bungling such programs, as Johnson rightly points…

…Reduction Program (HRRP), a program foisted on the fee-for-service Medicare program by the Affordable Care Act. The HRRP punishes hospitals with 30-day readmission rates above the national average. CMS uses…

…Part A and B enrollees’ costs in full. The QMB program is the strongest of four Medicare Special Programs (MSPs) presently. It is available to low-income and negligible asset enrollees having a…

…be a member of the Social Security Advisory Board in May, it came at an important inflection point for the program. A report subsequently released by the program’s trustees in…

…planner would use highly progressive taxes to fund universal benefits. Now politics. One very strong argument for universal benefits is “programs for poor people are poor programs”. Means tested programs…

…line between privately-run Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) and Traditional, Medicare, a publicly-administered Medicare program. Joe Namath and company make it sound as though “Medicare Part C” is the Medicare program.  It…

…Office responded to a series of questions posed by Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) and Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC), both fervently opposed to the program. The CBO’s responses to those specific…

…private banks but guaranteed by the federal government, were once the mainstay of the federal student loan program until the FFEL program ended in 2010. Today, according to federal data,…

…and Medicare. Scott has said he wants to “fix and “preserve” those programs, without providing details.  Coberly: yep “fix and preserve” by sunsetting the programs. that’ll fix ‘em. USA: A…

…was a model social program. The administrative costs are minimal, with the total program’s costs coming to less than 0.6 percent of annual benefits, with the costs of the retirement program alone…