Healthcare Policy Journalist

John Merline

1 article 1997

John Merline is a journalist and editorial writer who has focused on healthcare policy and government spending issues. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1997, writing about Medicare politics and scare tactics in the policy debate.

MEDISCARE CROW

October 27, 1997 · Magazine, Editorials

IN RECENT WEEKS, REPUBLICANS have been blasted in certain conservative quarters for caving in to the White House on Medicare. The charge? That they allowed the administration to slip a provision into the budget deal that effectively stripped senior citizens of their right to contract privately with…