Cutting Subsidies to Insurers Are Not Benefit Cuts
It's time we call this decades-long dance with the insurance industry and Medicare what it is-- political extortion--not benefit cuts.
It's time we call this decades-long dance with the insurance industry and Medicare what it is-- political extortion--not benefit cuts.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 05.25.2011
There seem to be two fixes to the Medicare problem. One consists of paying private insurers differently; the other, paying providers differently. Neither involves pulling the plug on grandma.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
Curtis Smith is retired, but his body doesn't know it yet. The 72-year-old's eyes still pop open at five a.m. every morning, just as they did for deca...
Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011
"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.
Barbara B. Kennelly | Posted 05.25.2011