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Friday, July 29, 2011

Health Care

News                                                                                                                             
Politico | Medicare at 67: The next big change?
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner failed to strike a "grand bargain" on the nation's deficit, but they may have pulled off another trick: revolutionizing the debate over Medicare.When they both accepted the idea of increasing the Medicare eligibility age to 67, they gave a controversial idea more legitimacy and high-profile support than it's ever gotten before.

Blogs                                                                                                                             
Heritage Foundation | Will Taxpayers Foot the Bill to Market an Obamacare Budget Gimmick?
During the health care debate of 2009 and 2010, the Obama administration used a number of accounting tricks to try to get the Congressional Budget Office to score the legislation as deficit neutral. One such trick took the form of a new entitlement: the Community Living Assistance Services and Support (CLASS) program.