Sentence examples for entitlement benefit from inspiring English sources
The speaker said Mr. Obama wanted to raise taxes too high and would not make "fundamental changes" to entitlement benefit programs like Medicare.
Even as Mr. Boehner pressed Mr. Obama to specify reductions in spending for Medicare and other entitlement benefit programs, the Republicans continued to be mute on what reductions they favor.
Instead, it was described as an early step in a long process, with an end goal of both raising tax revenues and curbing the growth of spending for Medicare and other entitlement benefit programs.
Amid that partisan backdrop, people in both parties say they have been surprised that the 18-member National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform reached an early consensus to put all three major budget parts on the table: taxes, annual spending for domestic and military programs, and the entitlement benefit programs Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
The spending cuts are affecting nearly all federal programs, domestic and military, but not the entitlement benefit programs like Medicare whose growth is driving economists' projections that annual deficits will begin increasing again by the end of this decade, ultimately unsustainably.
But many economists said a mix of tax increases and reductions in the fast-growing entitlement benefit programs -- Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security -- was essential, as soon as the economy fully recovered, to avert a fiscal calamity in the coming decade.
In terms of entitlement benefits, their (our) sense of fair treatment is less fully developed.
Mr. Obama also quashed Republican demands to trim the growth of entitlement benefits.
Protecting the entitlement benefits is the group's top priority at the moment.
Mr. Obama, though, will direct the proposed bipartisan commission to consider changes to both taxes and entitlement benefits.
