by Senator Susan Collins The challenges facing our nation’s health care system today are driven by demographics. The first member of the baby boom generation turned 65 last year. Our health care system now stands directly in the path of a tidal wave of aging baby boomers who will be retiring at the rate of […]

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With no Democrats voting in favor, the U.S. House of Representatives approved Paul Ryan’s budget plan on March 21. It has little chance of clearing the Senate, which was expected to bring its own, very different, budget to a vote the next day. The document is essentially a fiscal blueprint that outlines the GOP’s priorities […]

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  by Tim Rowan, Editor As this issue was going to press, the March 1 Sequestration deadline came and went, with all sides spending more time arguing who is to blame than writing legislation. Medicare providers will face a 2% rate reduction if sequestration is not avoided but it is not that simple.

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