Medicare Part B premiums and deductibles will remain unchanged from the past two years, a development that administration officials attribute to lower Medicare spending growth. While this is good news for Americans over age 65, it is important to keep…
Washington is starting Fiscal 2015 with “no budget, no decisions on how to spend taxpayer money wisely and no credible plan to avoid adding trillions of dollars to the federal debt in the coming decade.”That troubling critique came in a…
U.S. military leaders recently announced they would ask Congress for more funding to combat the terrorist organization ISIS, a reminder of how unexpected developments can make continuing efforts to restrain defense spending more difficult.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently said the…
A new report says many patients are not receiving the care they want in the final stages of their lives and are undergoing costly and unnecessary tests, procedures and hospital visits.Commissioned by the Institute of Medicine, which provides information on…
