Posts Tagged ‘CBO’
What we’re not being told about Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan
The mainstream media has failed to report that the Ryan plan is a privatization program that will hand $30tn to insurers By Dean Baker for the Guardian – The film Casablanca features one of greatest moments in movie history. With Humphrey Bogart standing with a smoking pistol over the body of the dead Gestapo major,…
Read MoreRepublicans dodge downside of Medicaid plan
By David Nather for Politico – Republicans talk a lot about how Medicaid block grants could help governors bring down their costs, but they don’t talk as much about what, exactly, the states would do with them. It’s not that they have no answers. Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi has said he’d like to provide…
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