A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recently determined that phenylephrine, an ingredient commonly used to treat sinus and nasal congestion, is ineffective in treating these symptoms. This was apparent from research for years, yet large...
El senador estadounidense Marco Rubio (R-FL) habló con César Grajales de La Poderosa 670 AM en El Panorama Político, sobre la crisis fronteriza, sobre cómo los hispanoamericanos se ven afectados con la realidad del país, sobre los cargos contra el senador Bob Menéndez...
Pregnant students are sometimes discriminated against by their schools, either intentionally or unintentionally and there is a concerning lack of awareness about the resources and rights available to them. Due to a lack of services and discrimination, these women may...
Currently, intelligence community civilians are subject to certain tax penalties for job-related relocation requirements, but active-duty military servicemembers are not subjected to the same penalties. These tax benefits, including the ability to deduct moving...
Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered opening remarks and questioned witnesses at a hearing on countering China’s influence in the United States. Watch Rubio’s opening remarks here as well as Part I and Part II of...
Approximately 302,000 Americans live with spinal cord injuries. To help these people achieve a better quality of life, there is a need to increase education and invest in research. U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) successfully led a bipartisan...
Last week, Senator Rob Portman (OH) launched a website looking for ideas on how to reduce the deficit. As a member of the Committee on Deficit Reduction (the “Super Committee”) Senator Portman’s interest in hearing from the public is important. You can submit your ideas on his website here: http://portman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/reduce-the-deficit
While Senator Rubio is not on the committee, here are two ideas he submitted:
Repeal ObamaCare
Although health care spending is the biggest long-term driver of our debt, the 2,700 page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) has made a bad situation worse. According to the House Budget Committee, PPACA will add over $700 billion to our deficit in the first ten years of implementation, carrying a total price tag of $2.6 trillion. The law also includes at $100 billion in new Medicaid obligations for the states as well as at least $1 trillion in new job-killing tax hikes. To help get our deficit under control, ObamaCare should be repealed in full and replaced with patient-centered health care reforms that lower health care costs and empower individuals, not government bureaucrats.
Save Entitlement Programs for Future Generations
It is impossible to deal with our long-term debt obligations unless we address the skyrocketing costs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Medicare alone has an unfunded liability of over $30 trillion, and over 10,000 Americans become eligible for the program’s benefits every day. Entitlement programs are a central part of the American social safety net, but they are simply not sustainable for future generations as currently structured. In order to save these programs without affecting benefits for those in or near retirement Congress should consider gradually raising the retirement age, adopting a more-realistic measure of inflation, and means-testing benefits for wealthier beneficiaries.