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- Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has just vetoed a common-sense women’s sports bill that keeps athletics in grades K-12 separated by biological sex.
- He’s chosen to do this over the wealth of wisdom and political will of both chambers of the Wisconsin legislature.
- And he’s done this even when the Biden Administration, recognizing the radioactivity of the trans-sports issue, has announced it will delay the release of the Title IX sports rule.
- Governor Evers’s veto is sure to have lasting consequences. Most Americans (70%) favor keeping sports separated by biological sex.
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- President Joe Biden has made it a top priority to use any administrative actions to promote and pay for abortions with taxpayer money.
- One significant effort has been the Defense Department using taxpayer funds to pay for abortion travel.
- But a new Pentagon report finds that the Biden administration’s abortion travel policy for service members and dependents was used only 12 times from June through December.
- Defense Department officials admit they didn’t begin tracking travel until August and couldn’t gather any data from March through May.
- Pentagon officials also explain that it’s not clear whether any of the 12 trips involved abortion, since the policy also may be used for other fertility-related health services.
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- Medicare spent $1 trillion last year, and it is growing rapidly.
- It is a major driver of the rising federal debt that, as the Congressional Budget Office has warned, threatens us with economic catastrophe.
- Despite reluctance from both Democrats and Republicans to face the issue, House Speaker Mike Johnson is proposing a bipartisan debt commission, which inevitably will have to reckon with Medicare and other federal entitlements.
- Fortunately, there are good ideas on how to preserve Medicare and many of them appear in the recently published book “Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Market Competition.”
- The experts in the book propose to preserve Medicare through market-based reforms—meaning patients would have a broad choice of plans and providers, and price competition among both would be intense.
- Transforming traditional Medicare into a comprehensive and updated health plan would not only reduce seniors’ reliance on additional premium payments for supplemental private insurance, but it would also guarantee them protection from the financial devastation of catastrophic illness.
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