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Over the next month and a half, Extemp Central will provide R&Ds on the topic areas for the 2022 NSDA National Tournament. USX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Thursday and IX topic areas will have R&Ds posted on Friday. This is meant to help extempers assemble resources to prepare for the competition in Louisville. This week we tackle USX topic area #3 on entitlements and healthcare.
The history of U.S. entitlements is a 230-year record of continuous expansion and liberalization, writes John F. Coganhttps://t.co/yUhForIuoP
— Wall Street Journal Opinion (@WSJopinion) January 8, 2022
Up to 14M people could lose Medicaid coverage when health emergency ends: study https://t.co/OXMGU5NAp8 pic.twitter.com/JoWoP0P5rX
— The Hill (@thehill) May 10, 2022
If we adopt Medicare for All without remaking the bureaucracy, we will perpetuate the perverse core of our medical system and its world-leading inefficiency.https://t.co/pAxeGx1OOR
— The Nation (@thenation) May 12, 2022
18% of middle-class households reported the receipt of unemployment insurance benefits in 2020, compared with about 13% each of lower- and upper-income households. https://t.co/eCEU9IobyO pic.twitter.com/cU5dapjYYJ
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) April 23, 2022
A subsidy boost for the Affordable Care Act that lowers prices for millions will end this year unless the federal government acts. https://t.co/bFbFcstTPi
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) May 16, 2022
The Supreme Court denied an effort Thursday to require certain Social Security benefits also go to Puerto Rico residents. https://t.co/9LAlJFHnRV
— Roll Call (@rollcall) April 21, 2022
Common sense welfare reform can aid citizens and families in California. https://t.co/H1ocATEY1T #CatoCalifornia pic.twitter.com/UiXHWWiUfr
— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) May 12, 2022
A public option plan could ultimately expand health care access by making a lower-cost plan available to consumers.
But the public option plan, though backed by Presidents Biden and Barack Obama, has gone nowhere due to political opposition in Congress. https://t.co/Q13Mo5nrEW
— NPR (@NPR) February 21, 2022
Medicare Advantage plans, which are swiftly growing in popularity among senior citizens, have at times delayed or denied beneficiaries’ access to medical care — even though the requests met Medicare coverage rules, a federal watchdog said. https://t.co/11Ct2jxKcX
— CNN (@CNN) April 29, 2022
U.S. healthcare spending is expected to have slowed last year after reaching a nearly two-decade high driven by the pandemic, according to a new report by federal regulators https://t.co/Rs6y7AKox4
— Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) March 30, 2022
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) says that Republicans won’t repeal the Affordable Care Act if they retake Senate in November’s midterm elections. https://t.co/BRP41tpENH
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 13, 2022