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...cost of college tuition across the country rose five percent last year, making college education inaccessible for many bright students. Some high school graduates are now relying solely on their intellectual faculties and ingenuity to build successful local businesses that don’t require degrees to manage...
Meta-analysis showed participants had a 19 percent reduced risk of coronary heart disease compared to a control group. This means that with each five percent increase in the proportion of calories from polyunsaturated fats, there was a ten percent decrease in coronary heart disease episodes. They also found that a diet made up of 15 percent polyunsaturated fats was more effective at reducing risk than a diet with the previously recommended ten percent...
...example of the type of “savings” the bill offers is the “Doc Fix” provision. Under current law, Medicare payments to doctors are scheduled to be cut by 21 percent in April, and then continue to decline for the rest of the decade. While this cut is typically reversed by Congress before it occurs, the oft-quoted CBO analysis of the Democratic health care legislation assumes that the cut will proceed and adds the savings to the reform’s tally. Without...
...curve-bending reform was there: there were substantive changes on which Republicans would have voted “Aye.” Instead, the Democrats chose to pass along party lines a 2409-page bill, with an additional 153 pages of amendments, dictating from Washington how to operate 16 percent of the economy. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the bill calls for $938 billion in spending over the next decade. Where will the nearly $1 trillion in spending be funneled...
...added to the failing government-run Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program rolls. That is, half of the 32 million Americans that the bill’s proponents claim will be covered are dumped into a government-run program that America already cannot afford. While 87 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new privately insured patients in 2008, only 53 percent of doctors reported accepting all or most new Medicaid patients, because Medicaid reimburses doctors below market rates. What good is Medicaid coverage if a doctor refuses to see you because...