The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) lowered its spending projections for Medicare earlier this month. The watchdog agency noted that Medicare’s expenses have been “significantly lower” than estimated for three straight years. The CBO revised its 10-year spending projections for the program down by $137 billion in its latest long-term economic forecast. That’s a two percent [...]
May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sarah Palin’s “Death Panels”… Where are they now?
Do you remember Sarah Palin’s rhetoric in the last presidential election about government-run “death panels?” What she was referring to are the control boards that President Obama proposed building into the Affordable Care Act. The goal, as I understand it, was to regulate the amount of money Medicare would pay for medical procedures at the [...]
