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Rostenkowski Isn't Just On Andrew's Mind

Andrew's post this morning about Dan Rostenkowski's being attacked by his own constituents after telling them that they would have to pay for their own catastrophic health care coverage isn't just a...

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Social Security, Medicare, and the Current Fiscal Mess

I have been very careful to stay away from making a link between the current explosion in the deficit and the reform of entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.  It's not that I don't...

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Medicare Insolvency Is Only Eight Years Away

Every year at this time, the Social Security and Medicare Trust Fund Trustees report on the current and projected financial conditions of the two funds.  The news released Tuesday was not good, and...

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Do These Shenanigans Qualify as Earmarks?

Shailagh Murray of The Washington Post gives us yet another reason to despise the way Congress conducts its affairs:Setting reimbursement rates for local hospitals, doctors, home health-care centers...

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What I Said On NPR This Morning About A Medicare Tax On Investment Income

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The Double-Counting Rove/Plouffe Debate Should Have Been On The Food Network

My column from today's The Fiscal Timesexplains why last Sunday's debate between Karl Rove and David Plouffe over health care reform really should have been aired somewhere other than This Week on...

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Debt Ceiling Increase is Likely To Fail at Least Once Before it's Finally...

This new Marist poll, which includes responses from just before and just after President Obama's speech at George Washington University last Thursday, shows again that many of the most fundamental...

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Eases or Shifts? You Decide

Stories like this one in the AP by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar are much of the reason why I doubt that any forward-looking reductions in the growth of entitlement spending will ever be implemented.  Even...

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Disagreeing With Pete On Medicare And New York 26

Pete's post from yesterday about not being able to draw a conclusion about the results in the special election held in New York to fill the seat left vacant when Republican Chris Lee resigned is...

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How Bad Was The Ryan Pick?

I first openly expressed my doubts about the value of Mitt Romney selecting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) as his vice presidential running mate 10 days ago. Here's the money quote...

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