ACA Repeal Process Begins In Congress
On January 3, 2017, Senator Mike Enzi, Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, introduced a concurrent budget resolution in the Senate to begin the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act. The resolution provides budget “reconciliation” instructions to the Senate Finance and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committees and the House Committees on Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means to submit their recommendations to the budget committees of the respective houses of Congress by January 27, 2017 for changes in the laws within their jurisdiction to reduce the deficit by no less than $1 billion for the years 201...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 3, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Following the ACA ACA repeal ACA repeal and replace Source Type: blogs
Want a New Job in the New Year? Tips for Finding a Federal Position
Thinking of working for the federal government as an audiologist or speech-language pathologist? You can usually find an appealing option depending on the age group you want to treat, your desire to move around and your ability to wait for long periods of time—or not—to find out if you got the job. Nearly all openings for audiologists and SLPs support our military members and their families.
Author’s note: The military has active audiologists but not SLPs, so civilian audiologists can get jobs with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. However, many of those openings get filled by veteran audiologists who as ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 20, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Lisa Lunsford Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Professional Development Schools Source Type: blogs
The Lavish Life of Overcompensated Bureaucrats
Yesterday Ishared some very good news about Brazil adopting a spending cap.Today, I also want to share some good news, though it ’s not nearly as momentous.Indeed, it ’s not even good news. Instead, it ’s just that some bad news isn’t as bad as it used to be.I ’m referring to the fact that the nation’s capital regionused to be home to 10 of the nation ’s 15-richest counties.
That was back in 2012, and I viewed it as a terrible sign that the DC area was packed withoverpaid bureaucrats, oleaginous rent seekers, and government cronies, all of whom wereenjoying undeserved wealth financed by hard-working taxpayers...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 16, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
TPC "Experts" Don't Know Who Gets What Share of Trump Tax Cuts
According toWall Street Journal writerLaura Saunders, future Treasury Secretary Mnuchin must be wrong because Tax Policy Center experts say so. Actually, Mr. Mnuchin may be partly right, but the experts are almost entirely wrong.“Steven Mnuchin, the likely next Treasury secretary, this week said rich U.S. taxpayers won’t get “an absolute tax cut” under President-elect Donald Trump,” writes Ms. Saunders; “But that is not what Mr. Trump says in his taxation plan. In fact, under his approach the wealthy would rece ive an average tax cut of about $215,000 per household, experts say.” “What Mr. Trump says” i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
TPC " Experts " Don't Know Who Gets What Share of Trump Tax Cuts
According toWall Street Journal writerLaura Saunders, future Treasury Secretary Mnuchin must be wrong because Tax Policy Center experts say so. Actually, Mr. Mnuchin may be partly right, but the experts are almost entirely wrong.“Steven Mnuchin, the likely next Treasury secretary, this week said rich U.S. taxpayers won’t get “an absolute tax cut” under President-elect Donald Trump,” writes Ms. Saunders; “But that is not what Mr. Trump says in his taxation plan. In fact, under his approach the wealthy would rece ive an average tax cut of about $215,000 per household, experts say.” “What Mr. Trump says” i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
