Topic: Social Security

Chances are extremely high that you know someone who receives Social Security or Medicaid or unemployment compensation or another federal benefit payment.  If so, they may be scared. More than […]

By Nina Owcharenko Recent coverage of the proposals offered by President Obama’s debt commission managed to gloss over a huge issue that is adding to the nation’s deficit – Medicaid. The impact […]

By Kelly McCutchen It was not Webvan or Pets.com this time. It was Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, AIG and Wachovia. Gone or sold for pennies on the dollar. It was […]

By Greg Scandlen Consumer Driven Health Plans have been around for about five years now. They began in June 2002, when the Internal Revenue Service released its first guidance on […]

By John C. Goodman The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was originally a Republican program to provide health insurance to children in near-poor families who did not qualify for […]