I have come to develop a high regard and respect for him as not only a smart senator but as a senator who very much likes and wants to do things in a bipartisan way.
If we keep putting off dealing with Medicare's $38 trillion in unfunded liabilities, there will be severe consequences for the country.
Certainly, as I traveled around the State of Wisconsin, when I ask younger people what do you expect to get out of Social Security and Medic...
But the second point is to me that shows that there's a pretty receptive audience for structural reform because when you have no expectation...
Until we reconnect that, until we re-induce the free market system which, by the way, guarantees, what, the lowest possible price and cost, ...
The numbers we came up with, rather than an annual cost for Obamacare of $93 billion, it's closer to almost a trillion dollars a year.
The free market itself would force the information.
I have joined 42 senators, 21 Republicans and 20 Democrats and 1 Independent, in asking the Select Committee to go big.
Currently, about the only reason that we're able to reduce cost to providers is because we have a huge amount of cost sharing.
When they first started this program back in 1965, they projected out 25 years and said that by 1990 Medicare would cost $12 billion. In fac...
I believe it is important for both the VA and IHS to appear together routinely to update everyone on how a more collaborative partnership wi...