by Terrance Heath | Jul 7, 2009 | Blog
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...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jul 6, 2009 | Blog, Economy
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...
by Alex Lawson | Jul 4, 2009 | Blog
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...
by Alex Lawson | Jul 3, 2009 | Blog
***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...
by Bill Scher | Jul 2, 2009 | Blog
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...
by Bill Scher | Jul 1, 2009 | Blog
If you wanted to get progressives more excited about the clean energy and climate protection bill that passed the House last week, you might be inclined to point to Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins HuffPost piece on the $1 billion in green jobs funding that was added at the last...
