by Jane Richey | Apr 23, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Medicare and Social Security are on a fast track to deep fiscal problems, trustees for the two programs warned Monday. The Medicare trust fund will be “exhausted” — meaning it won’t have enough money on hand to cover the benefits it’s supposed to provide — by 2024,...
by Jane Richey | Apr 10, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
In his report, Charles Blahous revisits the Republican claim that the administration “double counted” Medicare savings when scoring the budgetary impact of the law. He argues that practice hides the real cost of the measure, even though it conforms with...
by Jane Richey | Apr 1, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Senate Republican staffers continue to look though the 2010 health care reform law to see what’s in it, and their latest discovery is a massive $17 trillion funding gap. “The more we learn about the bill, the more we learn it is even more unaffordable than was...
by Jane Richey | Mar 24, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
Agenda Project, founded by Erica Payne, co-founder of Democracy Alliance and former Deputy National Finance Director for the Democratic National Convention, posted a video on YouTube portraying Congressman Paul Ryan as pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair off a...
by Jane Richey | Mar 22, 2012 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets
The House on Thursday afternoon approved legislation that would repeal a government board tasked with finding Medicare savings, and institute medical tort reform across the country. Members approved H.R. 5, the Protecting Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act, by a 223-181...
