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...other medical treatment) to all retirees, regardless of their income. As with Social Security, retirees collect far more from Medicare than they paid in taxes to the program. Taxing even half this subsidy for the wealthiest one-fourth of retirees would raise $5.4 billion a year. An additional premium charged to couples who earn $125,000 a year, for doctors' services received through Medicare, would net $1.9 billion more a year...
Better than testimonials from talking cats. "Read my beak!" says the feisty little spokesparrot for this premium cat chow. "No more birds!" He's out to convince cats that Whiskas is "a heck of a lot more nutritious than a teeny little guy" like himself. Best of all, thanks to brilliant editing, the little guy really appears to be speaking in that weird French accent...
...least some of the progressives' ideas. "The country stands ready to reward whichever party can deliver real results at the lowest possible cost," says James Pinkerton, a Bush campaign aide who is one of the group's leading thinkers. "And in this day and age, that puts a premium on nonbureaucratic solutions...
...plan and accepted it. As instituted, HealthFlex Blue charged an out-of-network deductible identical to the regular, annual deductible under the old Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. In other words, theoretically, no costs to patients were increased and better-managed care was made available to patients, at a lower premium. (See "managed care" in "Definitions" below.) In addition, the University is expected to save millions of dollars in its share of premiums under HealthFlex Blue, as compared with Blue Cross/Blue Shield...
Norman Lear, the TV mogul and co-founder of the liberal group People for the American Way, is a fan, sort of. "Real passion is at such a premium these days," Lear says. "In the land of the sitting and reading dead, Limbaugh's got passion, and thus he's watchable." To columnist Alexander Cockburn (the Nation), Limbaugh's is "a funny act. Humor always helps. But he seems to me the last surviving idiocy of the Reagan-Bush years. It's like those stars that give off light long after they've died. Long after everything Reagan-Bush stood...