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There is an escape hatch in the House proposal: a fail-safe provision stipulating that if annual expenses exceed the budget, the Secretary of Health and Human Services would be required to get the money out of the fees paid to doctors and hospitals. That is fine if the difference...
Amid scattered flurries of harsh rhetoric and pre-campaign posturing, the Senate spent the week hammering out the details of a sweeping overhaul of the nation's welfare system and stood poised to pass the bill this coming week. The historic measure would convert existing entitlement programs into capped block...
In order to introduce the issues, a little background is in order. Until AT&T was broken up in the divestiture decisions of the early 1980s, U.S. telephone service was essentially a regulated monopoly. After the "break-up" of AT&T in 1984, seven regional "Baby Bells" entered the industry...
Numerous ideas already are being discussed to ensure that America's arts and humanities remain fully funded. We can start, as Republicans will this fall, with restructuring the tax system to create further incentives to contributing to the arts and other worthwhile charities. Over the years, the tax code has...
The jockeying over reform has caused tempers to flare. Some Senators saw evidence of overly strenuous industry lobbying last month, when Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota, chairman of the committee that drafted the Senate's version of the bill, read into the record a letter from a Time Warner...