These new entitlements may be worthwhile, but they are also expensive.

"What Gore just proposed is layering another new unfunded entitlement on top of what's already out there."

But many conservatives are dismayed that their party is creating a costly new entitlement in an already stretched program.

Bergen went back to the sleeproom and used the rest of his new entitlement.

Yet they might wind up with lower wages as employers pass along the costs of the new entitlements.

The recent fiasco with catastrophic-health insurance shows, however, that estimating the cost of a new entitlement is difficult.

California's legislature has created a new educational entitlement: lots of kids will be going to college free of charge.

The proposal will not create new financial entitlements for patients.

This "pay as you go" requirement has discouraged Congress from creating new entitlements.

In the existing political climate, even to speculate about such a huge new entitlement for the elderly requires courage.