Longer cycles – for example, three years – would make it possible to create groups of beneficiaries whose options include guaranteeing the incorporation and formation of new generations of beneficiaries, providing a clear strategy for sustainability.
A thoughtful agenda would expand pilot projects that seek ways to give some potential beneficiaries realistic alternatives to SSDI so that they have the supports needed to remain at work, while allowing existing beneficiaries more options to experiment with returning to work without fear they will lose their safety net if their disability proves too much of an obstacle.
Mr. Romney's Medicare proposal would give beneficiaries the option of enrolling in private health care plans.
I call on Congress to pass a bill that ensures all Medicare beneficiaries the option to choose an affordable, accessible drug benefit.
Mr. Romney's proposal would give beneficiaries the option of enrolling in private health care plans, using what he, like Mr. Ryan, called a "premium support system".
Mr. Romney's proposal for Medicare is similar to the one in the Ryan plan, offering beneficiaries the option of enrolling in private health care plans, using what both he and Mr. Ryan call a "premium support system".
Another plan, developed by the staff of Ms. Steelman's commission, would give Medicare beneficiaries the option of paying a substantial deductible, ranging perhaps from $20,000 to $40,000, and then having the Government pay all the costs for long-term care, as well as all the costs of prescription drugs, hospitals and doctors.
The plan would give beneficiaries the option of remaining in traditional Medicare, and it calls for larger subsidies than Mr. Ryan's earlier Medicare proposal, which Mr. Obama skewered as a voucher plan to cut government spending at the expense of the elderly.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare have led the way by preparing to offer a blue button on their password-protected online portals to give veterans and beneficiaries the option of downloading copies of their medical or claims information.
AMONG 200 C.E.O.'s of companies tracked by Equilar, an executive compensation research firm that analyzed data for The New York Times, the biggest beneficiary of an options grant and subsequent stock market rally was Mr. Mulally at Ford.
