Elections

Budget Battles

  • Ryan Takes Personal Approach on Medicare

    By FELICIA SONMEZ, The Washington Post

    In a speech that appeared intended to quell doubts among seniors about his proposal to overhaul Medicare, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a deeply personal approach Saturday morning in...

  • Company healthcare

    Incentives Spike Fee-for-Service Health Costs

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Add “upcoding” to the long list of perverse incentives created by fee-for-service medicine that are undermining efforts at controlling health care costs in this country.

  • Election 2012: Now a Referendum on Medicare

    By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times

    Last week, I had a day all pundits dread—I made a confident prediction that Mitt Romney would not choose Paul Ryan as his running mate. Less than 24 hours later, he did exactly that. Obviously, my...

  • Fact Check: Dems Lie about Ryan's Medicare Plan

    By Liz Peek

    Democrats have either decided that lying to the American public is perfectly OK, or they haven’t done their homework. I’m not sure which is worse. Since the announcement that Wisconsin Representative...

  • Ryan Pick Could Save Senate for Democrats

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    Mitt Romney’s choice of Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate recalibrated the presidential race, turning it from a referendum on President Obama’s handling of the...