Posts Tagged ‘thompson’

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 [...]

Who’s really winning this race?

January 7th, 2008 | No Comments

A lot has been made of Iowa’s results.  Very little has been made of Wyoming’s results.  And, a LOT is being made of New Hampshire’s.  But, depending on which party you’re a member of, there has been either one or two votes trying to decide who the party’s candidate will be next fall.  A lot [...]

Crunch time, round two

January 6th, 2008 | No Comments

Lost in the debates last night, as well as the sports all over the networks, is the fact there was yet another caucus.  Mitt Romney won Wyoming.  This barely merited a blurb on Fox and not much more than that anywhere else.  Unlike Iowa, this one wasn’t close.  Romney got 67% of the vote, Thompson [...]

Iowa caucus – age matters

January 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment

Last night Iowa held their caucus.  This is the quickie breakdown of how the candidates did: For the Republicans: 52 got 34% 61 got 25% 65 got 13% 71 got 13% 72 got 10% The others either didn’t really run or were pretty much already out of it. For the Democrats: 46 got 38% 55 [...]

Huckabee screws up, joins all the other candidates

December 12th, 2007 | 2 Comments

I read this first thing this morning: Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?” I have real issues with this for several reasons. First of all, what does this have to do with being President of the [...]