Posts Tagged ‘lee terry’

Controlling health care costs through MEDPAC

June 8th, 2009 | No Comments

First of all, let’s see what MEDPAC is.  From their site: The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is an independent Congressional agency established by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-33) to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. The Commission’s statutory mandate is quite broad: In addition to advising the [...]

Pandering gone wild

April 2nd, 2008 | No Comments

Yesterday was another one of those mundane days where Congress passed a whole bunch of stuff that means nothing to anyone.  Two bills kinda stuck out to me for one very goofball reason: H. Res. 1021: Supporting the goals, ideals, and history of National Women’s History Month and H. Res. 1005: Supporting the goals and [...]