Tag Archives: Medicaid
Social Insecurity: The Senior Boomers Are Coming and We’ve Already Spent Their Forced Savings

Social Insecurity: The Senior Boomers Are Coming and We’ve Already Spent Their Forced Savings

Starting this new year of 2011, an average 7000 baby boomers will be turning 65 every day through 2029.  By 2030, an estimated 78 million Americans will be at least 66, and the retirees, their surviving spouses or dependents may ...Read more

When a Bull’s Eye is a Badge of Courage:  Congressman Ryan and His Roadmap for America

When a Bull’s Eye is a Badge of Courage: Congressman Ryan and His Roadmap for America

President Obama submitted a budget earlier this year that includes soaring debt and deficits that even White House Director of Management and Budget Peter Orszag admitted are “unsustainable.”   Perhaps not wanting to showcase an equally irresponsible budget, Congress is not ...Read more

The Medicare Football

Charles Schultz’s oft-revisited storyline is a useful parable for analyzing some of the politics of healthcare reform today.   Consider Lucy to be government proponents of various healthcare bills and plans; Charlie Brown, some concerned citizens; and the football, those various ...Read more