We finally had to write some letters, threaten to make those things public before I got this information.
Today only 11 cents of every health care dollar is paid for directly by the patient; 89 percent is either paid by govern...
The truth of the matter is we either spend money on CSRs to stabilize the market or we will spend money on the increased...
let us be honest.
It is inexcusable that we are tagging them with this kind of increase in premium when it is all avoidable.
If I cannot figure out what a knee replacement actually costs as a sitting U.S. Senator, what shot does the American con...
Congress did pass what I thought was a pretty good law, the health savings account (HSA) law.
I just finished 25 town halls in my State, and I can tell you people are very worried.
We are currently $20 trillion in debt.
if we can agree on what the problem is, if we can really define it properly, I think it is going to be a whole lot easie...
Our accumulated deficits will exceed at least $100 trillion.
We are going to be paying out $18 trillion more in benefits to Social Security than we bring in through the payroll tax.
I think there are a lot of other charts we need to look at if we are really going to get our arms around this issue.
Doing away with the individual mandate... all we are saying is you get to choose that other people pay for your health c...
Consumers really need to know what things cost.
For every $1 that is paid into Medicare through the payroll tax, beneficiaries get $3 in benefits.
So, if we do not want to pay our creditors $65 trillion in interest payments over the next 30 years, we do need to addre...
Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare represent $87 billion out of a total outlay of about $328 billion.
