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Maryland hospitals oppose state plan to update waiver

2013-05-06 19:41:45

The Maryland Hospital Association has sent a letter to state health officials saying it will not support a proposal that would link medical spending to the state's economic growth. The state presented the proposal to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Hospitals concerned about state rate-setting proposal

2013-04-06 12:39:33

A state plan to tie medical spending to the growth of the economy is making hospital executives uneasy. Executives support the spirit of the plan proposed by the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which seeks to reduce health spending by...

Sun publishes absurd views on labor issues

2013-03-25 06:45:00

As a businessman I read The Sun to be informed and educated, not for snide and misinformed comments such as those in commentator Matt Patterson's piece on the nomination of Thomas Perez as labor secretary ("Why do we need a labor department?" March 22)....

On sequestration, Obama becomes extortionist in chief

2013-02-23 00:00:00

At the end of 1995 and stretching into January 1996, the federal government "shut down" because of an impasse between President Bill Clinton and House Republicans led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The issue was increased taxes vs. less spending....

Is disability the new welfare?

2013-04-03 03:00:00

The government in Britain recently did something interesting. It asked everyone receiving an "incapacity benefit" -- a disability program slowly being phased out under new reforms -- to submit to a medical test to confirm they were too disabled to work....

Abortion and gay marriage: Not all social issues are the same

2013-03-25 04:00:00

Just because things can be put on the same list doesn't mean they are necessarily similar. My attic contains within it thousands of comic books, an inflatable bed, some jigsaw puzzles, some family pictures and a "Frampton Comes Alive!" album. These things...

We the few, the brave

2013-03-19 12:59:00

The estimable Jonathon Owen has published an article on towards�and toward�at Visual Thesaurus, presenting an interesting and plausible theory that the prevalence of the latter form in American published writing can be attributed to the efforts of copy...

Tax-free reading

2013-03-11 03:00:00

Here's a quiz for all current and future college students and their families: Which of the following has risen in price the most sharply over the last several decades — tuition, health care, the consumer price index or textbooks? For the correct...

Greatest generation the most entitled

2013-03-07 00:00:00

One thing nearly everybody agrees upon is that the "sequester" is a silly sideshow to the real challenge facing America: unsustainable spending on entitlements. Ironies abound. Democrats, with large support from young people, tend to believe that we...

Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?

2012-12-10 11:03:00

In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...

GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party

2013-02-08 00:00:00

In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union...

Two cheers for rebranding

2013-02-11 04:00:00

Ever since Mitt Romney lost the presidential election, there's been a lot of talk about how the Republican Party needs to "rebrand" itself. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being "the stupid party." Rep. Paul...

The percentage of votes missed by members of Congress is one "very important� measure of the jobs they're doing, according to Norm Ornstein, of the American Enterprise Institute .

2012-11-19 00:00:00

This is the tax increase that middle-class families will supposedly face if President Obama is re-elected, according to the Romney-Ryan campaign. As the GOP candidate for vice president, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), put it Oct. 13, "President Obama refuses to get serious about spending.

2012-10-19 13:39:30