Medicare reforms, higher taxes on rich in Obama plan debtreduction plan
WASHINGTON Even as President Barack Obama annoyed Republicans Monday by calling for higher taxes on upper-income Americans, he opened the door for revising Medicare as part of his plan to cut the federal deficit by $3 trillion in the next decade.Obama s plan calls for $1.5 trillion during the next decade in higher taxes largely on families making more than $250,000 a year but would also ...

Forget Social Security, Medicare Part D is what we should be worried about
The wild attacks on Social Security by Republican presidential candidates including Rick Perry s famous characterization of the program as a Ponzi scheme are amusing, but are a serious distraction from the real fiscal issues facing the country. Rather than attacking a fundamentally sound 75 year old program with a specified [...]