For the first time, required pre-authorizations are coming to traditional Medicare. The Trump administration proposes to extend pre-authorizations to traditional Medicare, just like Medicare Advantage. This maneuver has gotten little attention.
Readers Comments: Big, Not-so-beautiful bill; Imagine Being Scared of Diversity But Not Dictatorship. Now That's Scary; Accusing Jews of Antisemitism; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Jews for Food Aid; Harvard Free Online Courses; March to Gaza; and more....
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"This bill would rubber-stamp unchecked abuses of power even further," said the leader of one government watchdog group.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro said Republicans' newly proposed funding cuts threaten "the future of an entire generation."
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To say that anyone outside of the House GOP caucus had a hand in McCarthy’s downfall requires superhuman amounts of ignorance. It assumes Democrats exists to bail out the GOP from their mistakes and provide a bulwark against their own worst instincts
Reader Comments: Trump Says Shut It Down, House Goes Limbo; The Race to Be Speaker; Lots of Cartoons; It Could Have Been Me by Holly Near; Indigenous Peoples’ Day Resources; more....
Hopefully this time Democratic politicians and our media will, finally, call the GOP out on Wanniski’s and Reagan’s Two Santa Clauses scam and put an end to it once and for all…
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