It ends a major federal entitlement program, one that dates from the New Deal.
In addition to military spending, Bush put in place the Medicare prescription drug entitlement program.
Part D is the most cost-effective and successful entitlement program the federal government runs.
The Democrats are ready to accuse Republicans of slashing and burning every entitlement program and agency.
This is a massive entitlement program that could add billions and probably trillions to the federal deficit.
Upending an entitlement program used by so many Americans, particularly seniors, who vote in large numbers, carries considerable risks.
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If so, it will be the first new entitlement program to do so.
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So Medicare too is an entitlement program that discourages work and subsidizes retirement.
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View this as an entitlement program in reverse- a plan that is not subject to the whims of good political speechmakers.
That debt will experience exponential growth as the baby boomer generation adds 10, 000 retirees per day to the entitlement program roles.
Federal officials are understandably looking for easy ways to cut spending in the entitlement program in hopes of shoring up its finances.
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In 1978, Congress passed the Middle Income Student Assistance Act, which effectively made federally subsidized student loans an entitlement program available to all.
The document is an honest and thoughtful effort to restore fiscal balance through the combination of reduced spending and entitlement program reforms, and increased economic growth.
He thinks the public option is going to create a new entitlement program that is actually going to result in increased cost in the health care system.
If Republicans are going to ask for big changes to the entitlement programs, they should also be willing to make big changes to their own favorite defense-contractor-entitlement program.
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They created a new entitlement program for prescription drugs.
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It's not on that scale when we talk about the overall percentage of -- when we talk about the overall amount of entitlement program savings as well as, broken out, the health care savings.
Polling has consistently shown most Americans back the president, who insists wealthy Americans must pay more, rather than Boehner and his Republican colleagues, who have balked at tax rate hikes and demanded spending cuts and entitlement program reforms.
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The first relates to the new middle class entitlement health insurance program adopted by Obamacare.
Medicaid also could be transformed from a permanent entitlement into a temporary assistance program, much like the welfare reform of 1996.
Getting rid of the federal welfare entitlement in the 1990s and shifting the program to the states was a very successful policy, saving billions of dollars for taxpayers and significantly reducing poverty.
And this is a vital program that we intend to make stronger as we address the overall issue of entitlement reform.
So if you look at a balanced package even within the entitlement programs, it turns out that you can save trillions of dollars while maintaining the core integrity of the program.
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