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It's More Than Madoff
I scoffed when Bernie Madoff,through his lawyers, asked for a twelve year sentence in his fraud case. What some people think they can get away with pales only in comparison to what some people are actually allowed to get away with — especially when the...
Progressive Breakfast: Will WH Pull The Health Care Trigger?
Rahm Talks Up Plan To Delay Public Plan Option WH Chief of Staff expresses openness to "trigger" compromise. WSJ: "'The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private insurers honest,' he said in an interview. 'The goal is non-negotiable; the path is'...
Progressive Breakfast - 7/7/2009
Rahm Talks Up Plan To Delay Public Plan Option WH Chief of Staff expresses openness to "trigger" compromise. WSJ: "'The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private insurers honest,' he said in an interview. 'The goal is non-negotiable; the path is'...
Budget Cuts and IOUs: What's Squeezing the States?
The Great Recession has shoved state governments over the fiscal edge. But what brought states to that edge in the first place? On July 1 last week, in state capitals across the United States, a new fiscal year began — amid nearly unprecedented fiscal chaos. In...
Progressive Breakfast: Climate Battle Heads To Senate
Will Senate Follow House on Climate? Grist's Kate Sheppard assesses what's next following House passage of clean energy/climate protection bill: "Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued a statement congratulating...
Progressive Breakfast: 5 Week Sprint To Health Care
Crunch Time For Health Care Fight W. Post: "For the next five weeks, Congress will attempt the daunting feat of turning a mishmash of half-written proposals into health-care reform legislation that can pass the House and the Senate before the August recess." Sen....
Progressive Breakfast - 7/6/2009
Crunch Time For Health Care Fight W. Post: "For the next five weeks, Congress will attempt the daunting feat of turning a mishmash of half-written proposals into health-care reform legislation that can pass the House and the Senate before the August recess." Sen....
MedPAC Debunks Cost-Shifting Claims of Hospital, Insurance Industries
A report done for Health Care for America Now A recent Milliman, Inc. analysis on behalf of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) argues that Medicare doesn’t pay hospitals enough, causing private payers to pay well above costs to keep hospitals solvent. This is...
[HCIP] HELP health plan, Reform without public plan, Urban Institute report
***HEALTHCARE FOR ALL INFORMATION PROJECT***Sign up to receive our Health Care Information Project by email. Check the box next to Health Care for All --------------------------------------------- http://www.ourfuture.org/healthcare Contents: 1. CBO-KAY! Senate...
Memo To Deficit Hawks: Public Plan Option Indisputably Saves Money
When the CBO scored an early draft of the health care form bill from the Senate HELP committee as costing $1 trillion over 10 years but only covering one-third of the uninsured, obstructionists pounced and proclaimed the public plan option dead. But the CBO had not...
