Regardless of how the Supreme Court ruled, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional in spirit if not in fact. Questionable legislative maneuvers, chicanery in costing, an absence [...]
SB810, a bill creating a single-payer state health care system was narrowly defeated in the California legislature recently. Its proponents said it would save money and provide quality health care; but, [...]
The deadline for enrolling in a new Medicare Part D plan is drawing near. Have you checked what your current drug plan will cover in 2012? It's very likely that it [...]
The deadline for enrolling in a Medicare Advantage plan is fast approaching. People currently enrolled in Medicare Advantage need to check their plan and make sure it still fits their needs. [...]
Many people are disappointed that the CLASS program will not be implemented as planned because it solved a real problem in our society. CLASS was a government insurance plan intended to [...]
Polls show that most Americans, especially seniors, are against any changes in Medicare. Above all, people don't want their benefits reduced. What they don't seem to realize is that legislation has [...]
Despite evidence that changes to Medicare are necessary to solve our debt crisis, most people are opposed to altering the program. How are we going to move forward in fixing our [...]
Medicare is in the forefront of the discussions about our country's budget deficits; but most people, including current beneficiaries, don't really understand how it works. Meanwhile, the media, along with politicians [...]
Other countries that provide health care for their citizens all use rationing of one sort or another to control costs. In the last 2 years, laws have been passed in this [...]
According to the Congressional Budget Office's latest 10 year budget projection, the accumulated federal deficits in 10 years will total over $7 trillion dollars. Spending on health care alone will double [...]
