http://dir.salon.com/topics/medicare/?source=rss&aim=medicare en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT By Ed Kilgore Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/31/welfare_wedge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/31/welfare_wedge/index.html?source=rss Healthcare reform has brought back the right's favorite wedge issue -- government handouts for the "undeserving" By Alex Koppelman Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/16/ross_medicare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/10/16/ross_medicare/index.html?source=rss Rep. Mike Ross doesn't like the public option -- so why is he proposing something very much like it? By Michael Lind Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/21/healthcare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/07/21/healthcare/index.html?source=rss We need universal, citizen-based healthcare. It doesn't look like Obama and Congress are ready to give it to us By Joe Conason Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/07/17/healthcare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/07/17/healthcare/index.html?source=rss Hey, Democrats -- Republicans have no intention of addressing America's healthcare ills. Any reform is up to you By Michael Lind Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/19/lind/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/19/lind/index.html?source=rss Libertarians and conservatives react to the latest undramatic report on the trust fund's health by marshalling frightening, meaningless numbers. By Robert Reich Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/18/public_insurance/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/18/public_insurance/index.html?source=rss "Single-payer" isn't mentioned anymore, and now even Obama's Medicare-like public insurance initiative looks unlikely. By Robert Reich Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/13/reich/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/13/reich/index.html?source=rss Social Security is a tiny problem, but Medicare is entirely different. It's a monster. By Michael Lind Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/12/social_security/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/05/12/social_security/index.html?source=rss 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 Robert Reich Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/20/reich_spending/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/20/reich_spending/index.html?source=rss Obama will be tempted to bargain for his agenda with spending cuts; healthcare's not the place to trim. By Michael Lind Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/21/new_contract_two/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/21/new_contract_two/index.html?source=rss We need a new citizen-based Social Contract that would deliver universal healthcare and paid family leave. By Michael Lind Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/06/10/liberals/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/06/10/liberals/index.html?source=rss No matter who prevails at the ballot box in November, John McCain or Barack Obama, the four-decade-long conservative counterrevolution is over. By Rich Galen Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/01/democrats/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/01/democrats/index.html?source=rss The former communications director for Newt Gingrich compares the Democratic takeover of 2007 to the Republican takeover of 1995. By Janelle Brown Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/06/01/mexico_drugs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2006/06/01/mexico_drugs/index.html?source=rss Thousands of Americans buy cheap prescription drugs in Mexico. Some end up in squalid south-of-the-border prisons. By Joe Conason Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/02/17/medicare_fiasco/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/02/17/medicare_fiasco/index.html?source=rss The Medicare drug program disaster could cost Republicans control of Congress. By Tim Grieve Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/09/drugs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/05/09/drugs/index.html?source=rss More bad news about that prescription drug plan: Seniors who use it may lose their food stamps. By James K. Galbraith Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/21/greenspan_deficits/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2005/03/21/greenspan_deficits/index.html?source=rss 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 Robert Schlesinger Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/13/coburn/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/13/coburn/index.html?source=rss 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 James K. Galbraith Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/31/elderly/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/31/elderly/index.html?source=rss Lending his voice to the privatization lobby, Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. can no longer care for its elderly. By Charles Tiefer Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/25/bush_second_term/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/08/25/bush_second_term/index.html?source=rss What Bush has planned for America if he wins. By Farhad Manjoo Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/07/21/peterson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/07/21/peterson/index.html?source=rss 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 Mary Jacoby Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/24/armey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/05/24/armey/index.html?source=rss GOP enforcer Tom DeLay and his former partner Dick Armey are locked in a nasty dispute over the future of the Republican Party. By Eric Boehlert Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/05/medicare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/04/05/medicare/index.html?source=rss Bush's Medicare quagmire -- and the striking parallels to Iraq. By Anthony York Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/12/11/friedman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/12/11/friedman/index.html?source=rss 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 Beatrice Motamedi Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/10/16/critical/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/10/16/critical/index.html?source=rss A compelling PBS documentary explores the mess that Al Gore and George W. Bush refuse to confront. By Alan Berlow Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:08:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/09/08/bush_healthplan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/09/08/bush_healthplan/index.html?source=rss What's the difference between the Bush and Gore health plans?