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Quality Health Care for Life—A Mandate for Veterans that Must be Kept
Lt. Gen. (U.S. Marine Corp. Ret.) Jack Klimp’s presentation at last month’s AMAC National Health Care Symposium in Washington stressed that the Department of Defense must keep its promise of providing quality health care for life for retiring armed services…
Galen Institute Head Calls for Preservation of Medicare Advantage
Speaking at last month’s AMAC Foundation Health Care Symposium in Washington, Galen Institute Founder and President Grace-Marie Turner argued strenuously for retention of Medicare Advantage as the foundation for future health care reform, recognizing that this concept embodies the free…
AMAC Speaker Advocates Turning to the Free Market to Solve Health Care Problems
The potential role of the market process in reducing the cost of health care, medicine and medical technology was stressed by Michael Cannon, Cato Institute’s Director of Health Policy Studies, at last month’s AMAC National Health Care Symposium in Washington.…
AMAC Symposium Speaker Cites Obamacare as a “Horrific Bad Idea”
In an address titled “Approaches To Achieving Medicare Sustainability” presented at last month’s AMAC Foundation National Health Care Symposium in Washington, American Action Forum President Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin indicated that the Affordable Care Act in its original form had the…
AMAC Symposium Speaker Calls for Insurance Market Overhaul
In an address titled “Principles for a New Health Care Program,” presented at last month’s AMAC National Health Care Symposium in Washington, Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow Dr. Robert E. Moffit called for major overhaul of the our country’s health insurance…
Disability Is Not Just a Metaphor
“Freaks” are having a moment. The Kennedy Center’s acclaimed production of Side Show, about conjoined sisters at the circus, is rumored to be mulling a move to Broadway. The next season of American Horror Story will, similarly, be about a freak show. And in recent months there…
Social Security Disability Taxation – Curious And Confusing According to Tax Court
The treatment of social security disability payments is probably one of the more unfair aspects of the Internal Revenue Code. Every once in a while you will see it sneak up on somebody, which highlights the unfairness. The Tax Court…
Will High U.S. National Debt Kill Social Security Benefits Programs In 2015?
The 2014 unemployment extension bill keeps getting kicked down the road by Congress, but it’s possible that a new report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) may indicate hard times ahead for Social Security programs in general, including unemployment benefits. In…
Nordstrom ads feature models with disabilities
It’s not easy to find models with disabilities in ads for the fashion and beauty industry — unless you look in the Nordstrom catalog. The company has been using models with disabilities since 1997 and continues the tradition in its…
What you don’t know about Social Security could hurt you
If you’re thinking that the friendly guy working at the Social Security office is your financial advisor…stop thinking that way. It’s not that he doesn’t want to help you, it’s that he can’t. Even as about 10,000 Americans reach retirement…