Douglas Schoen is a political strategist and author of Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System (Harper 2010), co-authored with Scott Rasmussen.
Congress just departed for their annual August recess, and to no one’s surprise, Democrats and Republicans could not agree on the 2014 budget. Now, Congress will return this fall for what will undoubtedly be major battles over significant fiscal issues: the approval of a 2014 budget, raising the U.S. debt ceiling, and allowing sequestration to […]
The alleged targeting of conservative political groups by IRS officials, while relegated to Congressional hearings and calls for additional investigations (for now), will be red meat for candidates running in next year's midterm elections.
As technology advances, AI-powered tools will increasingly reduce the administrative burdens on healthcare providers.
As it becomes clear the President Obama is making Medicare a key topic for discussion within the broader context of federal spending, Democrats and Republicans have an opportunity to pursue common-sense reforms that preserve the program while achieving bipartisan support for fixing what isn’t working. Despite ongoing reservations, I believe that some parts of the […]
The Republican primary in Florida brought discussions of healthcare, particularly Medicare, back to the forefront of the national discourse. With its sizeable senior population, Medicare and Social Security were top of mind to Florida voters. It is certainly important that health care, and particularly Medicare, be debated thoroughly during the Presidential campaign, as entitlement reform […]