Medicare

News The return of the welfare queen

Healthcare reform has brought back the right's favorite wedge issue -- government handouts for the "undeserving"
By Ed Kilgore Aug 31, 2009

  • Real medical reform: Gravely ill

    "Single-payer" isn't mentioned anymore, and now even Obama's Medicare-like public insurance initiative looks unlikely.
    By Robert Reich May 18, 2009

  • The truth about Social Security and Medicare

    Social Security is a tiny problem, but Medicare is entirely different. It's a monster.
    By Robert Reich May 13, 2009

  • Let's cut Social Security to pay for banker bailouts!

    You are about to be hit by another wave of disinformation about how Social Security is going broke and needs reforming (meaning, your benefits must be cut). It's not true.
    By Michael Lind May 12, 2009

  • Let's fast-track universal healthcare

    Obama will be tempted to bargain for his agenda with spending cuts; healthcare's not the place to trim.
    By Robert Reich April 20, 2009

  • An economic Bill of Rights for Americans

    We need a new citizen-based Social Contract that would deliver universal healthcare and paid family leave.
    By Michael Lind January 21, 2009

  • Relax, liberals. You've already won

    No matter who prevails at the ballot box in November, John McCain or Barack Obama, the four-decade-long conservative counterrevolution is over.
    By Michael Lind June 10, 2008

  • What Democrats need to learn about power

    The former communications director for Newt Gingrich compares the Democratic takeover of 2007 to the Republican takeover of 1995.
    By Rich Galen June 1, 2007

  • Bitter pills

    Thousands of Americans buy cheap prescription drugs in Mexico. Some end up in squalid south-of-the-border prisons.
    By Janelle Brown June 1, 2006

  • Rx for GOP doom

    The Medicare drug program disaster could cost Republicans control of Congress.
    By Joe Conason February 17, 2006

  • The Bush prescription: Cut food stamps

    More bad news about that prescription drug plan: Seniors who use it may lose their food stamps.
    By Tim Grieve May 9, 2005

  • The deficit trap

    Instead of accepting Greenspan's false argument that deficits will undermine Social Security, Democrats should actually call for more federal borrowing -- and spend the money on rebuilding America.
    By James K. Galbraith March 21, 2005

  • Medicine man

    The future of GOP control of the Senate depends on Oklahoma Republican candidate Tom Coburn, a former doctor who has covered up a scandal from his past until now.
    By Robert Schlesinger September 13, 2004

  • Social Security scare campaign

    Lending his voice to the privatization lobby, Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. can no longer care for its elderly.
    By James K. Galbraith August 31, 2004

  • And you thought his first term was a nightmare

    What Bush has planned for America if he wins.
    By Charles Tiefer August 25, 2004

  • "Running on Empty" by Peter G. Peterson

    Bush's tax cuts have squandered an era of prosperity and doomed our kids to a crippled economy, argues the former secretary of commerce. But the Democrats, he insists in this dark and brilliant jeremiad, have done no better.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 21, 2004

  • House divided

    GOP enforcer Tom DeLay and his former partner Dick Armey are locked in a nasty dispute over the future of the Republican Party.
    By Mary Jacoby May 24, 2004

  • Lies, bribes and hidden costs

    Bush's Medicare quagmire -- and the striking parallels to Iraq.
    By Eric Boehlert April 5, 2004

  • White House economic policy: Confusion

    Stephen Friedman was set to be the next chair of Bush's National Economic Council. Then he wasn't. Then he was again. Clearly, the man has enemies.
    By Anthony York December 11, 2002

  • America's sick healthcare system

    A compelling PBS documentary explores the mess that Al Gore and George W. Bush refuse to confront.
    By Beatrice Motamedi October 16, 2000

  • Prescription politics

    What's the difference between the Bush and Gore health plans?
    By Alan Berlow September 8, 2000
Page 1 of 2  oldest ⇒
Salon Directory › m › Medicare (32 stories)

From Salon's blogs