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Billboard Needed

From Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, who knows as much about this subject as anybody, comes the best answer to those who say the Medicare proposal on the table is the best that can be hoped for: 1. Congress ...
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The Medicare Conundrum

This article by Ramesh Ponnuru on National Review Online may be the best summary of what conservatives are thinking and feeling right now on Medicare. This is what happens when conservative leaders don't go outside the beltway to build a ...
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“Medicare Perspective Index” — Grim Parody of Harper’s Sheds Light on Medicare Debate

Ed Haislmaier has put together, with a nod to Harper's Index, a "Medicare Perspective Index" (PDF file) to illuminate some of the more striking facts of the medicare prescription drug debate. It's worth reading and scary stuff when you consider ...
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Simply Nuts

A note from Project 21 member Michael King: Do you need permission to call an injustice a lynching? U.S. Senator Zell Miller (D-GA) has been taken to task by Wade Henderson, executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, ...
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Dy-No-MITE!

An observation from Project 21 member Darryn "Dutch" Martin on how appearances can be deceiving: On a recent edition of The O'Reilly Factor dealing with Rush Limbaugh's stint in rehab for painkiller addiction -- and whether -the view of him ...
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From New Democrats Online: “Medi-Mess”

Ed Haislmaier recommended this informative short piece posted online today by the Democratic Leadership Council. The piece calls the House-Senate compromise "a lost opportunity to modernize Medicare," saying Congress "should have designed a workable prescription drug benefit and introduced key ...
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War between the Generations: Federal Spending on the Elderly Set to Explode

This piece by Chris Edwards and Tad Dehaven at the Cato Institute provides further support for the notion that we need to reform Medicare -- really reform it -- and the sooner the better ...
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Who Says Congressional Trips Are Just Vacations?

An observation from our executive director, David Almasi: Who said congressional delegations are just vacations? It seems one CODEL really made a big difference, for now. In a surprising policy reversal, Congressman Sheila Jackson-Lee, a hardened Bush critic, decided American ...
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Medicare: It Needs Reform for More Reasons Than Most People Realize

Ed Haislmaier writes in this new National Policy Analysis #498 paper, Medicare: It's About the Future, Stupid! that Medicare's current structure has a lot more problems than just the one we keep hearing about (the little matter of what in ...
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And Then There Was One

More on the story of Congressman Jim Moran from NCPPR executive director David W. Almasi: And then there was one. Yet another of Congressman Jim Moran's announced primary opponents has dropped out of the race. Former Fairfax County Board Chairman ...
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