Unusual Respite From Surging Health Care Costs

PITTSBURGH — Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are veering sharply in how they gear up for Tuesday’s presidential debate, setting up a showdown that reflects not just two separate visions for the country but two politicians who approach big moments very differently. The vice president is cloistered in a historic hotel in downtown Pittsburgh where she can focus on honing crisp two-minute answers, per the debate’s rules.

A new bill introduced in Congress by U. S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen seeks to incentivize more states to offer drug abuse treatment through Medicaid, six years after she sponsored a bill requiring Colorado to provide that care. The bill was introduced in the U. S. House late last month. If passed, it would make it easier for states to cover treatment for drug abuse, like inpatient hospital stays or residential treatment, via Medicaid, in part by ensuring that the federal government will cover 90% of new costs in the first five years after a state adopts the program. Under current law, Medicaid doesn’t cover drug treatment.

If you see a car festooned with bumper stickers, nine times out of ten, it’s someone voting Democrat, and you can see how irrational their values really are.

One wonders how many times the venerable axiom “get woke; go broke” will have to be proved before people in business get back to doing business and leave moral instruction to parents and churches?

Can we just start calling him Tim the Terrorist? What about Terrorist Timmy?