Idaho Republican's exit worries immigration advocates
Story Highlights Republicans want to limit the costs associated with legalizing immigrants on U.S. taxpayersSen. Hatch says he will only vote for package if 4 financial amendments are addressed on...
View ArticleN.H. GOP chairmen: Republicans should back immigration bill
Follow @sethmclaughlin1 Recent Entries Five former chairmen of the New Hampshire Republican party urged Congress on Friday to pass the comprehensive immigration bill making its way through the Senate,...
View ArticleWe Know What Milton Would Say
Stephen Moore's "What would Milton Friedman Say?" (op-ed, May 30) is excellent, marred only by its title. As one of Milton Friedman's many graduate students at the University of Chicago in the...
View ArticleSingle payer is needed cure
After spending 25 years in the health care field, most of it related to making hospitals more efficient and effective, I have become skeptical of many of Washington’s reform efforts, especially by my...
View ArticleHow to Read the CBO’s Scoring of the Immigration Bill (The Heritage Foundation)
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) Sometime in the next few weeks, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) will produce a "score" of S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration...
View ArticleMERRITT: A smarter Medicaid pharmacy
Facebook Follow @washtimes Do you think, as Sen. Charles E. Schumer does, that the Senate will pass the immigration bill by July Fourth? Login to Vote View results Over the next decade, Medicaid...
View ArticleWhen doctors and patients share in decisions, hospital costs go up...
(Source: University of Chicago) Since the 1980s, doctors and patients have been encouraged to share decision-making. Proponents argue that this approach promotes doctor-patient communication, enhances...
View ArticleHealth Care for the Poor Without Wrecking Health Care for All
When Milton Friedman addressed a University of Chicago Medical School graduating class in the 1960s, he raised the issue of health care for the uninsured. Friedman asked students to help end the state...
View ArticleAmerica's Looming Demographic Challenge
The following is an excerpt from the recently released e-book, A Modest Proposal for America: Taxes, Entitlements, and the Manufactured Crisis of Federal Finance America's social safety net is far...
View ArticleNew Jersey sent checks to inmates, report says
The Daily Briefing U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty prepares for congressional game by practicing with the Ohio State University softball team.... Buckeye Forum Podcast The Dispatch public affairs team talks...
View ArticleWhen doctors and patients share in decisions, hospital costs go up
Yet, a hospital-based study found that patients who want to participate in their medical decisions end up spending more time in the hospital and raising costs of their hospital stay by an average of...
View ArticleCharges for procedures vary between Northeast Florida hospitals
To treat a Medicare patient with chest pain, Orange Park Medical Center charges almost $36,000 — more than three times the cost at the Mayo Clinic. But when the federal government sends payment, the...
View ArticleSmoking, sugar, spirits and 'sin' taxes: Higher price would help health,...
The physicians contend that much of overall health depends on behavior and is relatively independent of the health care system. Risk factors for many common and chronic diseases are directly linked to...
View ArticleLabour 'would keep child benefit cuts' made by coalition
A future Labour government would not reverse cuts to child benefit made by the coalition, the BBC has learned. Labour has criticised the cuts, but its leadership believes it could not afford the...
View ArticleNew Jersey Sent Welfare Checks to Prisoners
Reining in welfare, unemployment benefits and state pension costs have become standard rallying cries for Republican politicians — particularly those with an eye on the White House. But Gov. Chris...
View ArticleNew Jersey inmates collected millions in government benefits, report says
UNDATED: Prison cells inside Pontiac Correctional Institution, Pontiac, IllinoisAP TRENTON, N.J. – Inmates in New Jersey have been collecting millions of dollars in unemployment, health care and...
View ArticleImmigrants contributing to Medicare’s health
In case you missed it… Turns out immigrants are not just tending our lawns and cleaning our homes. They’re saving our health care. More specifically, Medicare. “In 2009 immigrants made 14.7 percent of...
View ArticleSocial Security Analysis of Immigration Bill Opaque and Too Narrow (The...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) Proponents of the Senate immigration bill have been touting a recent analysis by the Social Security Chief Actuary which alleges a $4.6 trillion immigration boon for...
View ArticleSwedish riots: if instability can happen here, what might unfold elsewhere?
More than 20 cars torched in one night. School classrooms gutted by fire. Fifty far-right extremists chasing immigrants around a suburb. You probably haven't seen much about it in the papers, but for...
View ArticleMilton Friedman Was Wrong About Corporate Social Responsibility
It happens very often when I speak about sustainability and corporate responsibility, and it happened again last week. Someone will ask me about Milton Friedman's famous quote: "There is one and only...
View ArticleSweden's Real Equality Problem
By FREDRIK SEGERFELDT Stockholm "The perfect political Rorschach test." That is how Hanne Kjöller, an opinion writer at Swedish centrist daily Dagens Nyheter, characterized the rioting in the suburbs...
View ArticleLegal 500 Ranks 19 Bracewell Practices as U.S. Leaders (Bracewell & Giuliani...
(Source: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP) June 3, 2013 HOUSTON - Legal 500 USA has recognized 19 Bracewell & Giuliani LLP practices and recommended 59 of the firm's attorneys in its 2013 rankings....
View ArticleImmigrants help Medicare stay solvent
WASHINGTON — Immigrants in the United States both legally and illegally are helping sustain Medicare, contributing about $14 billion more a year to the federal health program for the elderly than they...
View ArticleHospital Procedure Prices Vary Greatly, New Data Show
Hospital prices for outpatient procedures like clinic visits, magnetic resonance imaging scans and ultrasounds vary greatly from facility to facility and often are many times what Medicare pays,...
View ArticleDouble Coverage: How It Drives Up Medicare Costs for Patients and Taxpayers...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) Abstract Traditional Medicare's cost-sharing structure has remained virtually unchanged since 1965, and seniors face unlimited out-of-pocket costs. In sharp contrast...
View ArticleWhat makes the Republican position on Medicaid expansion truly sick
If you want to get a sense of the enfeebled and wanton state of the modern Republican party, there really is no better place to start than on the issue of Medicaid, the federal program that provides...
View ArticleFOR MEDICARE, IMMIGRANTS OFFER SURPLUS, STUDY FINDS
c.2013 New York Times News Service Immigrants have contributed billions of dollars more to Medicare in recent years than the program has paid out on their behalf, according to a new study, a pattern...
View ArticleImmigrants Generated A $115 Billion Surplus For Medicare From 2002 To 2009,...
* Study finds immigrants pay billions more than they use * Immigration policy changes could deplete program-researchers * Immigrants generated $13.8 bln surplus in 2009 By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, May...
View ArticleHow immigration helps the eldery
Linda Chavez Here’s a thought: If Medicare pays your medical bills, thank an immigrant for making it possible. For all the loose talk about how immigrants burden our social welfare system, it turns...
View ArticleLinda Chavez commentary: Immigrants bolster nation's safety net for elderly
Also in Opinion Subscribe to The Dispatch Sign up for home delivery of The Columbus Dispatch and find out What's In It for You. Already a subscriber? Enroll in EZPay and get a free gift! . Here’s a...
View ArticleImmigrants aid U.S.-born retirees
Here’s a thought: If Medicare pays your medical bills, thank an immigrant for making it possible. For all the loose talk about how immigrants burden our social welfare system, it turns out that when...
View ArticleWhat Northeast Florida hospitals charge for procedures can vary by thousands
To treat a Medicare patient with chest pain, Orange Park Medical Center charges almost $36,000 — more than three times the cost at the Mayo Clinic. But when the federal government sends payment, the...
View ArticleLet's discriminate among immigrants
Such data and such differences still exist today. Immigrants from some countries are seldom on welfare, but immigrants from other countries often are. Immigrants from some countries are typically...
View ArticleAbstract Immigrants
By Thomas Sowell on 6.4.13 @ 6:04AM Admitting people with incompatible cultures is an irreversible decision with incalculable consequences. One of the many sad signs of our times is the way current...
View ArticleSafety net issue snags reforms to immigration
Facebook Follow @washtimes Will the conservative groups suing the IRS be victorious? Login to Vote View results Much of the fight over illegal immigration isn’t about immigration at all, but rather...
View ArticleWhat Would Milton Friedman Say?
By STEPHEN MOORE One of the fascinating sideshows of the immigration debate within the Republican Party and the conservative movement is the debate about where the late Nobel Prize-winning economist...
View ArticleMedicare Data Show Wide Divide In What Hospitals Bill For Out-Patient Services
Medicare released average bill charges for 30 hospital outpatient procedures Monday, showing big differences from hospital to hospital in how much they bill patients for the same service. The data...
View ArticleRoseburg woman sentenced for theft of benefits
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Roseburg woman who lied to the government about her marriage to get more than $300,000 in benefits has been sentenced to a year in prison. Judith Ann Eubank, 60, is also required...
View ArticleImmigrants help U.S. economy, study says
Migration has started picking up again in the developed countries. A new OECD report attributes the rise to the increased movement of people within the European Union, as a result of sweeping...
View ArticleMilton Hershey School: Class of 2013
The following is a list of expected graduates from Milton Hershey School: Ronald Adams, Emmanuel Aleshinloye, Deleila Alloui, Carlos Anavitate-Bermudez, Elijah Anderson Marrow, Helen Ard, Phoenix...
View ArticleBenefit Restrictions Beyond Those in Senate Immigration Bill Would...
(Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities) The Senate immigration reform bill establishes a long and difficult path to legal status that includes substantial fees and fines and tough...
View ArticleImmigrants less likely to be getting social welfare
Unemployed immigrants in Ireland are less likely to be getting social welfare assistance than unemployed natives, an international conference on migration during and after the economic crisis was...
View ArticleImmigrants are net contributors to U.S. Medicare program : study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Immigrants for years have paid far more into Medicare's coffers than they have pulled out, effectively subsidizing rising healthcare payments to the aging U.S. population, a...
View ArticleWill immigration reform provide the workers America needs? No
Immigrants will only expand bloated welfare state President Barack Obama speaks about immigration reform at the White House last Tuesday. President Obama urged Congress to pass a comprehensive...
View ArticleState cash for inmates: $23M error included unemployment, welfare
Thirteen incarcerated state employees received sick leave payments. Another inmate received nearly $40,000 in unemployment over more than a year while incarcerated on a drug-related offense. And...
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