July 2, 2008
Discuss Wednesday's editorials
Medicare cuts a symptom of failure
A huge cut in Medicare reimbursements would leave the nation's seniors without doctors willing to treat them.
Many people who have Friday off for the Fourth of July holiday are toiling a little harder this week. They try to get ahead -- or at least caught up -- so work does not pile up over the long weekend. Then there is Congress. Lawmakers are already firing up the barbecues back home even though they left important work incomplete in Washington. They kicked off their holiday vacation without passing a bill that would prevent a huge Medicare cut. Only a last-minute dodge by the Bush administration postponed the damage.
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Keep the faith on religious freedom
Candidate Obama should clarify where he draws the church-state line for federal funding.
Barack Obama wants to expand on President Bush's faith-based social services initiative by adding dollars and pushing more of them farther down the money chain to grassroots religious and secular charities that help the needy in their communities.
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