by Bill Scher | Dec 10, 2009 | Blog
Today's Politico headline from Copenhagen is: "Climategate distracts at Copenhagen." This seems based on a very low bar for what constitutes a distraction. Is the international summit torn now between resolutions saying global warming is a moral imperative or a...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Dec 10, 2009 | Blog
A chart buried in the Congressional Oversight Panel report released Tuesday explains one of the reasons why a compromise on a financial regulatory reform bill struck by the White House, the House Democratic leadership and a group of conservative Democrats is so...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 9, 2009 | Blog
We're summarized some of our content on DailyKos. Stop on by if you have any comments to add. As we told the Kossacks: A lot of folks in Washington like to pretend there are mythical union people out there somewhere savoring the fruits of their lavish health plans,...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 9, 2009 | Blog
Two new papers published today in Health Affairs could help turn opinion against the excise tax, especially from an academic perspective. Using a combination of analysis and interpretation, six researchers reached essentially the same conclusion: The excise tax would...
by Dave Johnson | Dec 9, 2009 | Blog
American competitiveness is severely hobbled by our "free market" and anti-government attitudes. One way our competitors hold us back is by encouraging this outdated ideology. Result: other countries have national economic/industrial strategies and we don't. So we...
by Richard Eskow | Dec 9, 2009 | Blog
"We're finding that about half of the large employers we work with will be at or above the (excise tax threshold) limits." Senior Health Benefits Consultant We promised yesterday to write a series of posts about the "amazing facts" contained in a recent Kaiser Health...