Articles tagged with: medicaid
Paul Ryan’s “Path to Poverty” for the Middle Class
The House Republicans released this week a budget plan for the United States called “The Path to Prosperity“. According to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the new budget initiative contains all of the policies that Republicans believe are needed to move America forward. It is, in fact, a revealing blueprint of how Mr. Ryan and his fellow conservatives view …
U.S. Child Poverty Rate : A National Disgrace
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development recently released some sobering statistics related to child poverty throughout the developed world. The figures included only North America, Europe and a few other developed countries, and were intended to show the percentage of children who live in households that get by on less than 50% of the national median income. Since the …
Who In the World is Gary Johnson?
The long list of Republican presidential wanna-be’s just became one name longer, as former New Mexico Governor, Gary Johnson, threw his hat in the ring.
Welfare : The “Soma” of the Masses
Image by Steve Rhodes via Flickr
AskCherlock recently received from a reader a copy of a letter sent to President Obama, concerning the “health care crisis” in America. The letter was sent by an emergency room physician, who talked about a Medicaid (i.e. welfare) patient he had recently treated. He described the patient as being covered in elaborate tattoos, wearing expensive …
The 2010 “Jobs Bill” : A Necessary Step
The Federal Government cannot simply cut off the safety net of unemployment benefits to those millions of people who have lost jobs due to the recession, and to the states that have lost tax revenues used to pay for Medicaid.
Government by Crisis
No comprehensive plan has been developed to deal with the impact of skyrocketing national debt. The three biggest contributors to the ever-increasing debt are Social Security payments, Medicaid payments and entitlements; yet all three of these huge government programs have been declared “sacrosanct” by spineless politicians who lack the courage to tackle politically sensitive issues.
The Filibustering “Party of No”
The inability of Congress to achieve even a modicum of bi-partisanship on something as simple and routine as a spending bill that keeps government services flowing is a troubling sign of the times we live in. The use of the filibuster to block legislation, which used to be used prudently and infrequently, is now an “everyday” weapon in the arsenal of Republicans
AN EVIL TRIUMVIRATE
It is a new axis of evil, this triumvirate, consisting of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Representative Joe Wilson. They are demagogues, all. Truth has no place in their repertoire and their only seeming goal is that of disseminating false information in egomaniac self-promotion.
Palin pontificates about the non-existent “death panels” in Obama‘s proposed Health Care Reform legislation. Her outrageous claim …
Eliminate Fraud; Pay for Health Care Reform
It seems such an easy answer to me. The public is rightfully concerned about the expenditure of tax dollars needed to fund Health Care Reform. My idea is a simple one. Expand The Office of Inspector General in all states to investigate and prosecute fraud in Medicaid. The OIG is the only agency which actually recoups and returns money to State and Federal …
The Future Starts Today
With the seemingly endless primary season behind us, a new President elected and sworn in, and the Bush Administration a thing of the past, the time has now come to take stock of where we are and where we are headed as nation. In his inaugural address President Obama clearly spelled out the challenges that lie before America, both domestically and …
