Obamacare
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Implementing work requirements should be a legislative priority
Medicaid work requirements aren’t in the debt limit deal. They should’ve been
President Joe Biden signed a measure on Saturday that suspended the country’s debt limit after weeks of wrangling with Republicans in the House. The legislation averts a default on the nation’s debt. Democrats managed to keep Medicaid work requirements out of the final compromise . That’s a shame. The proposal would have helped rein in federal spending while ...
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Biden wants to add another few billion dollars to the deficit
Don’t expand Medicaid to noncitizens
Last week, the Biden administration released a plan that would open up Medicaid and Obamacare to nearly 580,000 undocumented immigrants. Never mind that the federal deficit is projected to reach $1.4 trillion this year. What’s another few billion dollars? The proposed rule centers around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows undocumented ...
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Obama’s Exchange Scam Doesn’t Grant Healthcare Access
The Biden administration has devoted billions of taxpayer dollars to boosting enrollment on Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges — mostly by paying people to sign up, in the form of enhanced premium subsidies. So it’s no surprise that the 2023 open enrollment period broke records, with 16 million Americans securing coverage through ...
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Don’t Fall for the Fear, GOP Seeks Sustainable Medicaid
The Biden administration is fear-mongering about what the “extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus” has in store for the country. Last week, the White House put out a statement declaring the Freedom Caucus’s proposal to impose work requirements in Medicaid a “Five-Alarm Fire!” But the real emergency is Medicaid’s finances. Spending on the ...
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Hospitals aren’t being honest about costs, and we’re paying the price
Imagine receiving a bill for $10,000. It’s from your local hospital, where you had a minor procedure. But you have no idea why it’s so high, or how you’re going to pay. If you’ve ever had an experience like this, you’re not alone. In 2020, a California couple was billed ...
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Don’t fund Medicare with higher taxes
President Joe Biden recently released his budget proposal for 2024. His plan pledges to extend Medicare’s solvency by at least 25 years “without cutting any benefits or raising costs for beneficiaries.” The president’s math doesn’t add up. His plan would burden taxpayers while leaving Medicare on the fast track to insolvency. Medicare’s Part A ...
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Why Medicare as We Know It Can’t Last
Which party will cut Social Security and Medicare? Democrats and Republicans have spent much of this month pointing fingers at one another. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggests that both parties have cuts to old-age benefits on the docket. According to the CBO, the Social Security Old-Age and ...
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Politics aside, fixing Medicare isn’t brain surgery
Democrats and Republicans are accusing one another of trying to “cut” Medicare . The finger-pointing obscures the reality that both parties will eventually have to make cuts to the program. It’s a matter of arithmetic. The country has fewer and fewer workers available to fund the healthcare of more and more seniors. ...
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Don’t Fall for Biden’s Obamacare Boosterism
The open enrollment period for HealthCare.gov came to a close last week. And at the end of this month, open enrollment in many of the states that run their own marketplaces will close. As of Jan. 11, the most recent date for which the government has data, roughly 15.9 million people have purchased ...
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Sorry, we have to raise Medicare’s eligibility age
The United States hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion Thursday. As a result, Republicans and Democrats are jousting over how to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit. Democrats have insisted on raising the debt ceiling without any conditions. Republicans, meanwhile, are looking to cut federal spending in exchange for any increase in the ...
Implementing work requirements should be a legislative priority
Medicaid work requirements aren’t in the debt limit deal. They should’ve been
President Joe Biden signed a measure on Saturday that suspended the country’s debt limit after weeks of wrangling with Republicans in the House. The legislation averts a default on the nation’s debt. Democrats managed to keep Medicaid work requirements out of the final compromise . That’s a shame. The proposal would have helped rein in federal spending while ...
Biden wants to add another few billion dollars to the deficit
Don’t expand Medicaid to noncitizens
Last week, the Biden administration released a plan that would open up Medicaid and Obamacare to nearly 580,000 undocumented immigrants. Never mind that the federal deficit is projected to reach $1.4 trillion this year. What’s another few billion dollars? The proposed rule centers around the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows undocumented ...
Obama’s Exchange Scam Doesn’t Grant Healthcare Access
The Biden administration has devoted billions of taxpayer dollars to boosting enrollment on Obamacare’s health insurance exchanges — mostly by paying people to sign up, in the form of enhanced premium subsidies. So it’s no surprise that the 2023 open enrollment period broke records, with 16 million Americans securing coverage through ...
Don’t Fall for the Fear, GOP Seeks Sustainable Medicaid
The Biden administration is fear-mongering about what the “extreme MAGA Republican House Freedom Caucus” has in store for the country. Last week, the White House put out a statement declaring the Freedom Caucus’s proposal to impose work requirements in Medicaid a “Five-Alarm Fire!” But the real emergency is Medicaid’s finances. Spending on the ...
Hospitals aren’t being honest about costs, and we’re paying the price
Imagine receiving a bill for $10,000. It’s from your local hospital, where you had a minor procedure. But you have no idea why it’s so high, or how you’re going to pay. If you’ve ever had an experience like this, you’re not alone. In 2020, a California couple was billed ...
Don’t fund Medicare with higher taxes
President Joe Biden recently released his budget proposal for 2024. His plan pledges to extend Medicare’s solvency by at least 25 years “without cutting any benefits or raising costs for beneficiaries.” The president’s math doesn’t add up. His plan would burden taxpayers while leaving Medicare on the fast track to insolvency. Medicare’s Part A ...
Why Medicare as We Know It Can’t Last
Which party will cut Social Security and Medicare? Democrats and Republicans have spent much of this month pointing fingers at one another. A new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) suggests that both parties have cuts to old-age benefits on the docket. According to the CBO, the Social Security Old-Age and ...
Politics aside, fixing Medicare isn’t brain surgery
Democrats and Republicans are accusing one another of trying to “cut” Medicare . The finger-pointing obscures the reality that both parties will eventually have to make cuts to the program. It’s a matter of arithmetic. The country has fewer and fewer workers available to fund the healthcare of more and more seniors. ...
Don’t Fall for Biden’s Obamacare Boosterism
The open enrollment period for HealthCare.gov came to a close last week. And at the end of this month, open enrollment in many of the states that run their own marketplaces will close. As of Jan. 11, the most recent date for which the government has data, roughly 15.9 million people have purchased ...
Sorry, we have to raise Medicare’s eligibility age
The United States hit its debt ceiling of $31.4 trillion Thursday. As a result, Republicans and Democrats are jousting over how to raise the federal government’s borrowing limit. Democrats have insisted on raising the debt ceiling without any conditions. Republicans, meanwhile, are looking to cut federal spending in exchange for any increase in the ...
