I agree about this guy -- he is talented and thoughtful and I hope he has a bright and visible future in politics/government. Don't agree with age limits, term limits, etc as they limit our choices in a democracy. I understand why the idea is attractive. Too few politicians go when it's time.

Hi Dr. Galloway,
I have tons of respect for you. That is why I was so troubled this morning to see a news item that you want to end SS benefits for up to a 3rd of Seniors because, "they don't need it." VERY BAD idea. SS and Medicare have survived politically only because they are shared by all!

I think it is because there is no enforcement mechanism identified in the 14th ammendment and the Supreme Court ruled that since a 2/3rds majority of Congress is required to "remove such disability," only a 2/3rds majority of Congress could decide that such a "disability" exists.

I hear your point. I am thinking of the NYT, WP, WSJ, etc and two if those 3 are owned by billionaires. Despite that, they do not produce garbage and most good, investigatory journalism comes from those kinds of institutions. Outside of them, we get whatever garbage that gets the most clicks.

Solid journalism with a research component needs to funded in order for it to be accurate. Who is going to fund all these "independent journalists?"

Overly convenient, though. The debt ceiling had never been weoponized until 2011. It was Republicans who started weoponizing it. They appeared to be quite devoted to it. Now that it will cause embarrassment to Trump, they want to scrap it. No. Wait until a Dem is back in the White House.

I think the problem does involve payors trying to maximize profits. The development of insurance over the millennia has been on two tracks -- 1) the commercial track and 2) the social track. Health insurance began on the social track but has moved to the commercial. They suck up about 20% of HC $

A lie travels halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. It is nice that the IG found no evidence of FBI provocation. Unfortunately, evidence and facts don't matter anymore.

If you ever want to focus one of your articles on the hospice industry, I'd love to contribute some background. I've been a hospice administrator for 30 years and have seen the development of the profiteers.

Great article. One place you see privatization and profiteering off Medicare is in hospice. For-profit hospices game the system and cost the taxpayer much more per patient than not-for-profit hospices and provide considerably fewer services.

I wish that were true. But history is more commonly written by the victors.

Not if it was Medicare Advantage for all. What repubs in congress want to do is make MA the default choice. United Healthcare is the largest MA plan provider in the country. The first thing we have to us get these profiteers out of our Healthcare system.