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The Medicare Drug Benefit: Worse Still

…compensated by Medicare). Like many other health professionals who have become familiar with this program, she has come to see it not as a boon for elderly consumers, but as…

Par for the Course

I am shocked… SHOCKED… to find that the Bush administration is unable to competently manage a federal government program. From today’s NYTimes: With tens of thousands of people unable to…

Social Security: Tanner v. Krugman and Marshall

…not a pension fund. It is not an investment project. It’s a social insurance program. It is a – it’s something that is there to protect people against misfortune. Now,…

Social Insecurity: Hardball Asked a Good Question

…these type of people. Yes – by having a social insurance program, which is the program that Wesbury is advocating getting rid of. Yes, the GOP is pushing Social Insecurity….

…9/11, but there was little follow-through. For example, this: Mr. Bush proposed a 7 percent increase in overall spending on counterterrorism programs, a larger increase than was proposed for any…

Un-Tubular A story in today’s Washington Post, Iraq Survey Fails to Find Nuclear Threat: No Evidence Uncovered Of Reconstituted Program, should put the final nail in the bogus aluminum tubes…

…civil rights program. We favor home-rule, local self-government and a minimum interference with individual rights. We oppose and condemn the action of the Democratic Convention in sponsoring a civil rights…

…weapons program of Saddam Hussein — because he had a weapons program.” But, as Rick notes, either they merely saw existing weapons in a new light (Rumsfeld) or Iraq had…