Medicare

Spending as A Percetage of GDP 1950 – 2010

January 22, 2013

A new study from the St. Louis Fed has provided us with this nifty graph. The Graph below shows spending by major categories as a percentage of GDP.  Some may find this surprising. There are more charts at the link, also here at Hot Air.  Take particular note of the graphs on revenue and spending relative [ Read more ]

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Spenders, Please Wake Up!

August 26, 2012

I just read the Merrimack Patch’s Letter to the Editor, and I must say that it’s disconcerting at best.  You can pretend all you want that we live in a land where we can spend, spend, spend and somebody else will pay without heartache.  But to me, that’s delusional and irresponsible.  That’s walking up to [ Read more ]

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Obama Cut 700 Billion From Medicare…

August 14, 2012

…yes he did.  And he owned that 700 Billion Dollar cut.  Watch him.  

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Medicare Fraud – [Updated and Bumped - Again...]

August 13, 2012

When I say “Medicare Fraud,” I’m not referring to the corrupt practices of people and professionals who are milking taxpayers by running fast circles around the bureaucratic behemoth that is Medicare.  I am referring to the left-wing Democrat lie-factory that has nothing in its barren campaign quiver but fear tactics.   That is the fraud I [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview – Rick Parent (Candidate, Congress (NHCD-1) – Question 8 – How fix Social Security / Medicare entitlements due to demographics?

July 23, 2012

The biggest expenses in the Federal budget that are driving the national debt (and will continue as the “rabbit in the snake” of Baby Boomers retire) are Social Security and Medicare.  With crashing demographics and the money “alternatively used” by Federal Agencies, how would you fix this problem that could bankrupt the nation?  Question 8: [ Read more ]

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The Misleading Claim about Medicare Administrative Costs

April 26, 2012

A recent caller to Niel Young’s radio show, “The Advocates”, claimed that Medicare’s administration cost is much lower than for private insurance companies. But, Medicare’s formula for computing administration costs doesn’t include all the costs which government requires in the calculations for private companies. So the comparison is not valid, and the claim is misleading. [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Event: Ovide Lamontagne House Event Q&A-Q2: how fix the low Medicare / Medicaid payments that increase private sector costs?

February 20, 2012

Next question that was asked at the Jeanne Forrester home event for Ovide Lamontagne (and to Ovide) continued on the healthcare topic: Q2: Where / how to fix the low Medicare / Medicaid payments that will increase private sector costs?

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Project Veritas – More Medicaid brought to you by James O’Keefe

August 11, 2011

I had previously posted one of Project Veritas‘s Medicaid exposure videos – where a Russian drug lord was all but successful in enrolling in Ohio’s Medicaid system.  In doing so, he showed that any pretense of safeguarding valuable taxpayer money was thrown to the four winds as seemingly, the more valuable metric of "one more [ Read more ]

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Your Tax Dollars Hard At Work!

July 28, 2011

“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.” ~Edmund Burke And when older people are yelling, “Don’t cut my Social Security!” Do you think they know about this community in Tacoma Washington? SO here you have it….Obama pimping the old people to keep [ Read more ]

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And James O’Keefe is at it again – this time Medicaid!

July 18, 2011

First it was Planned Parenthood (those paragons of reproductive death health virtue), then onto the the convention of NJ Teachers Gone Wild (those paragons of union power educational virtue). Now, a new skewering brought to you by overblown acting, bad Russian accents, implausible business schemes, family relations that only a bad comedy writer would entertain….and [ Read more ]

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Sebelius Admits to Obamacare Double tap

March 7, 2011

Fans of the movie Zombieland might understand the post title right away. In the movie the lead protagonist, “Columbus” has a set of rules he always follows which he believes are the only reason he is still alive after the world is turned into Zombieland by a mutant strain of Mad Cow disease that turns almost everyone into crazed, flesh eating zombies.

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