Tag: Medicare
Someone just asked me to give a talk on “entitlement reform.” I know reform is a good thing. And entitlement sounds bad. Merriam Webster’s online dictionary offers a definition: “a belief that one is deserving of or entitled to certain privileges.” Well, if greedy people out there are getting special stuff, we should fix it.&nbs…
David Brooks is one of my favorite commentators. That said, as part of a recent piece – “Midlife Economics” (New York Times 12-26-11) – he wrote that the United States “spends so much on poverty programs that if we just took that money and handed poor people checks, we would virtually eliminate poverty overnight.” T…
