Where Is The Return On Investment for Single Payer Health Care?

This JSOnline article talks about Governor Scott Walker’s desire to drug test certain Medicaid applicants before they can receive benefits. We’ll get back to that in another post…but the key data point that I wanted to bring up is Wisconsin currently has 1.2 million people on Medicaid. That population size…

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Entitlements

Ok, now I am going to get all middle school term paper wonky on you: entitlement: noun the fact of having a right to something. Over the past dozen or more years, the Republicans have been spitting out the word entitlement in such a way as to alter its meaning…

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Solving The Issues With The Veteran’s Administration Medical Care

Since the major combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan started winding down, there have been repeated and unsolved issues with providing adequate and timely healthcare for our veterans. Despite repeated assurances and varied lip service out of Washington, things just don’t seem to be getting better. Even with new rules…

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#ThrowbackThursday – Paul Ryan’s updated “Despicable Me”

Shortly after Rep. Paul Ryan was chosen as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate in 2012, I shared a compilation over at Blogging Blue of some of the really really stupid things Paul Ryan has said and done throughout his career as a politician. In keeping with the theme of…

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Does it get any sicker than this?

The Washington Post reports that for profit hospice care companies may be ripping off Medicare for billions of dollars by enrolling patients who aren’t actually dying. Yes, I’m afraid you read me correctly. Isn’t capitalism swell?

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Solving Unemployment While Destroying Social Security!

Now we have probably all read articles about saving Social Security by raising the minimum retirement age again and raising the age where one earns their maximum benefit. Of course it could simply be saved by eliminating the salary cap…but I think I discussed that elsewhere on Blogging Blue. But…

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Tell the President That Social Security IS NOT On the Table!

New stories today say President Obama is willing to negotiate cuts to the social safety net to resolve the sequestration issue: These include the Social Security retirement program and Medicare and Medicaid healthcare programs for the elderly, disabled and poor that are becoming more expensive as a large segment of…

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Medicare and the Fiscal Cliff

Representative John Boehner is trying to include cuts and adjustments to Medicare as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations. I won’t deny Medicare needs some serious attention to insure is liquidity for the future. But it is far too important and far too complex to be addressed with sound byte…

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Tommy Thompson’s Medicare plan: he’ll “use the computers” to “make the necessary things”

Here’s Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson explaining his “plan” to reform Medicare: When I’m elected to the United States Senate, I have a chance to use the computers and have the access to CBO and I’ll be able to make the necessary things. Here’s some video of Thompson explaining…

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Tommy Thompson wants to “do away with Medicaid and Medicare” (VIDEO)

“Tea Party” Tommy Thompson, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate here in Wisconsin, wants you to know something: He’ll “do away with Medicaid and Medicare” if Wisconsin’s voters send him to the United States Senate. Don’t believe me? Watch “Tea Party” Tommy tell you himself. As Matthew Rothschild of The Progressive…

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