Stanley Feld M.D.,FACP,MACE As the healthcare debate heats up the meaning of consumer driven healthcare (CDHC) needs repeating. The true meaning of CDHC has been bastardized by the healthcare insurance industry as represented by Health Savings Accounts (HSA). The healthcare......

by Bruce Webb Andrew Biggs references an editorial from the Charleston SC Post and Courier Advance Entitlements Reform However, President Obama's major entitlement-reform offensive strikes on the Medicare front. He proposed, in his speech to Congress, to deliver "quality, affordable health care for ...

It is time to wipe the term entitlement reform, a monument to the dark art of disinformation, out of the political dictionary. There is no crisis in Social Security, or even in Medicare and Medicaid. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries February 24, 2009 Harsh Medicine February 24, 2009 Under New Man...

 They’re back!!!. After a brief intermission to allow the Government Accounting Office to deal with challenges to contract awards, the Gov ernment is again gearing up for the 50 state roll out of the Recovery Audit Contract Program where contingent fee contractors get to rummage through the ...

David Waldman has a very useful blast from the GOP's lunatic past for you: I have with me a hard copy of a collection of Republican quotes predicting doom and disaster in the wake of the 1993 Clinton economic stimulus plan, and much of the rhetoric is eerily similar to today's. Of course, th...

Have yo ever just wondered, Oh My God who is in Charge??? I think I was wondering that on my return from the Capital this week. The issues are simple, the fix is simple, although our government and the process is none of the above.   What if you were on oxygen, you had medicare for your insuran...

Jeffery Miron, Harvard Senior Lecturer in economics at Harvard University, on the stimulus package, CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) — When libertarians question the merit of President Obama’s stimulus package, a frequent rejoinder is, “Well, we have to do something.” This is h...

Your LibertyWeek hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome you back with a rousing discussion of the much-debated Stimulus to Nowhere and the website where you can evaluate it, StimulusWatch.org. We get an update from the billionaire’s club known as the World Economic Forum in Davos, S...

There is a Republicans for Single Payer group. Please forward the link to your Republican friends. The idea will seem less threatening if it comes from a Republican voice. There are many Republicans today who are out of work and just discovering the hard realities of the American Health Neglect Syst...

Barack Obama takes office today with a realistic prospect of joining the ranks of history's most powerful presidents....