Category Archives: Politics and Legislation

Today Medicare trustees have announced that Medicare will run out of hospital insurance funds by 2024, which is five years prior to projections made a year ago. The shortfall of funds is in part due to the rough economy and number of tax cuts. Politicians have been stressing the need to overhaul Medicare but Republicans [...]

There has been a lot of political talk about reforming Medicare and Medicaid to slim the national deficit and make the health insurance programs solvent. While every politician is afraid to mention ideas on how to transform these entitlement programs, the time is finally here. Last week Representative Paul Ryan proposed a plan which would [...]

To combat a $1.5 billion deficit in Arizona, the state has been considering some controversial moves to the health insurance program for low-income, Medicaid. Currently Arizona provides Medicaid coverage to more residents than most states but is very serious about cutting their deficit. The most recent cost-cutting idea from Arizona is a Medicaid tax on [...]

As California faces one of the largest deficits in the nation, they are paying millions every year for health insurance and health care costs for prisoners. California residents are not only paying for the health care costs but they are paying for those prisoners to be guarded as well. The Los Angeles Times reports that [...]

A battle that has been brewing for a long time continues as the White House disagrees with the Medicare’s chief actuary over savings from health care reform. Medicare chief actuary Rick Foster has been questioning the savings that the Obama administration has claimed for a long time now. But as Republicans questioned Foster during a [...]

A couple months ago Democrats challenged Republicans to drop their federal health insurance coverage if they wanted to appeal health care reform. While dropping coverage may have little to do with repealing reform, fourteen Republicans have stepped up to the challenge. Almost all of the Republicans that are foregoing the federal coverage say that their [...]

The health care debate continues as Democrats now ask Republicans in a letter to give up their health insurance plans and “walk that walk.” The letter is a result of recently appointed Andy Harris from Maryland and what ensued when he was told that he would have a one-month waiting period for his benefits. In [...]