That Europe will kick the solution of the Greek debt crisis down the road again, with another temporary bailout payment, has no connection whatever to slowing global economies and rising inflation.

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They also assume that the temporary tax provisions (the so-called extenders) and the temporary Medicare physician payment adjustment (the doc fix) expire in a year as the law states.

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But the government definition of default is wrong, argue the for-profit colleges, not least because it counts as defaulters students who have joined a temporary interest-only payment scheme offered by the government to help ease the transition from student to worker.

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The IMF's mission was to give countries temporary short-term loans so they could put their economic houses in order, coping with temporary balance-of-payment problems without resorting to destructive tariffs or massive devaluations.

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Consequently, the AMA is right back where it started, begging every year for a temporary reprieve from a cut in payment rates that will exceed 31 percent next January unless Congress steps in (as it has regularly for the past decade) to give it a reprieve.

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That means offering payment and promotion on merit, more temporary and part-time work, and better child care, maternity leave and job prospects for their female staff.

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But that increase is only temporary, and as AEI health policy scholar Joe Antos has pointed out, the policy merely elevates Medicaid payment rates to 77 percent of private rates for two years, after which they will drop back to 58 percent.

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