For years now, economists using the ideas ofModern Money Theory(MMT) have been telling us that the so-called long-term “funding” problems of Social Security (SS) and Medicare emphasized incessantly by supporters of austerity are faux problems. The MMT economists believe this because the US is...
aI've seen the italian postal service website right now. The shipping cost should be 50 euro cents more, but only for You I'll make the same price. No problem. 我现在看见了意大利邮政局网站。 运费应该50欧洲分更是,但为您我将仅做同一个价格。 没有问题。[translate]...
DPPDuplicate Primary Payment(Medicare) DPPDining Philosophers Problem DPPDétermination du Projet Professionnel(French: Determination of the Professional Project) DPPDamage Prevention Program(various programs) DPPDefect Prevention Process DPPData Processing Program ...
With costs soaring and millions of baby boomers about to go on Medicare, health care — and how to pay for it — is poised to emerge as the top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential campaign," wrote Richard Benedetto of USA Today in February of 2006. Reflecting on this statement from ...
The federal government was unprepared to take on that responsibility, as the botched rollout of HealthCare.gov proves.Part D, on the other hand, built on the established Medicare program and targeted a well-defined group of beneficiaries - those over the age of 65. The federal government was...
Her press team, meanwhile, isn’t saying much about policy― except to confirm that Harris is no longer committed to some of the more progressive positions of her 2020 presidential bid, like promising to ban fracking or promoting a kinda-sorta-Medicare-for-All plan.” (emp...
One Alcoholics Anonymous chapter evenadded a page to its websitein 2020 addressing the concerns of those who don’t wish to introduce themselves with the now-famous line: Their name, followed by “and I’m an alcoholic.” “Even with that reclamation, there’s a level of internal...
(Person-years are a way to correct for the fact that counties can have wildly different population sizes; one person on Medicare for one year is one person-year). Counties with more than 100 cases caused byHistoplasmaorCoccidioides, or 50 cases caused byBlastomyces, per 100,000 person-years...
aO’Brien nicely sums up the dilemma people will face if the cost-sharing options on the table become law. The proposed changes “would force them to weigh whether their needs justify the extra outlay.” How they do that is the productive thread for many future Medicare stories. Even if th...
Medicare’sPhonyProblem: The45PercentThreshold The2007MedicareTrustees’reportprojectsthatbytheyear2013,morethan45percentofMedicare’s totalfundingwillcomefromgeneralrevenues.Underthe2003MedicareModernizationAct(MMA), thisprojectionwilltriggeraseriesofspecificstepstodealwiththe“problem.”Acloserlook,however, shows...