Posts Tagged ‘vernon ehlers’

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 [...]

The ramifications of taxing the AIG bonuses

March 20th, 2009 | 3 Comments

Yesterday Congress voted to tax the bonuses the AIG employees received.  A lot of people are mad at them gettign the bonuses, Michelle Malkin among others is mad that Congress is doing anything about it. You can find the full roll call vote on HR 1586, tax cheat Charlie Rangel’s ass-covering, after-the-fact AIG bonus tax [...]