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Desperately Dialing: The Tennessee Health Care Lottery

Desperately Dialing: The Tennessee Health Care Lottery

by Ann Werner If you live in Tennessee and can’t afford health insurance, you have to depend on how fast you can punch in the numbers on your phone to get a shot at coverage. The New York Times is reporting that twice a year, residents of the state who fall within certain parameters are [...]

March 25, 2013Read More

CBO May Have Underestimated Medicare Savings By Over $300 Billion

March 12, 2013 Comments
CBO May Have Underestimated Medicare Savings By Over $300 Billion

Think Progress reports that after analyzing the latest budget outlook, the Congressional Budget Office found that projected Medicare spending between 2010 and 2012 had dropped by more than $500 billion since those projections were made in 2010. Moreover, if the trend continues, we will realize additional savings of $363 billion by 2023. In the past [...]

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Florida: What It’s Like To Wake Up From A Tea Party Binge (VIDEO)

February 20, 2013 Comments
Florida: What It’s Like To Wake Up From A Tea Party Binge (VIDEO)

When Rick Scott took over as Governor of Florida in 2010, he was a Tea Party darling. He began to implement austerity on a huge scale, while at the same time, helping his wife’s medical company grow via changes to the state’s Medicare laws and mandatory drug testing for welfare recipients (which his wife’s company [...]

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