Armand Biroonak

The Bush Administration’s privatized “Medicare Advantage” plans are rising twice as fast as costs in traditional Medicare, according to the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

Bush's Medicare prescription drug plan prohibits the federal government's ability to negotiate drug prices--costing the government an estimated $90 billion annually.

President Bush’s push for further privatization of Medicare's prescription drug plan stuck 3.4 million Medicare beneficiaries with high drug costs.

The Congressional Budget Office reports the main factor in the rising cost of Medicare is the growth of health care costs—health expenditures as a percent of GDP have more than doubled since 1970, growing from 7.0 percent to 14.8 percent in 2002.

The campaign to end the federal estate tax was financed by 18 of the richest families in America—including 23 billionaires—who stand to reap over $70 billion with its repeal

In 2009, any estate worth less than $3.5 million ($7 million per couple) will be passed on to heirs and heiresses estate-tax free.

Only one of every 300 estates is subject to the estate tax.

The Congressional Budget Office and the American Farm Bureau Federation report that the estate tax threatens almost no farmers or small businesspeople; the AFBF did not find one instance of an endangered farm due to the tax.

The Bush Administration’s privatized “Medicare Advantage” plans are rising twice as fast as costs in traditional Medicare, according to the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission.

Bush's Medicare prescription drug plan prohibits the federal government's ability to negotiate drug prices--costing the government an estimated $90 billion annually.

President Bush’s push for further privatization of Medicare's prescription drug plan stuck 3.4 million Medicare beneficiaries with high drug costs.

The Congressional Budget Office reports the main factor in the rising cost of Medicare is the growth of health care costs—health expenditures as a percent of GDP have more than doubled since 1970, growing from 7.0 percent to 14.8 percent in 2002.

The campaign to end the federal estate tax was financed by 18 of the richest families in America—including 23 billionaires—who stand to reap over $70 billion with its repeal

In 2009, any estate worth less than $3.5 million ($7 million per couple) will be passed on to heirs and heiresses estate-tax free.

Only one of every 300 estates is subject to the estate tax.

The Congressional Budget Office and the American Farm Bureau Federation report that the estate tax threatens almost no farmers or small businesspeople; the AFBF did not find one instance of an endangered farm due to the tax.