by Robert Borosage | Jul 8, 2009 | Blog
This Congress potentially could be the most productive in over 40 years. It has passed the largest recovery plan in the nation's history. It extended health care to millions of children. It passed Obama's first budget with its significant down payment on education and...
by Bill Scher | Jul 8, 2009 | Blog
Yesterday, health care watchers tried to read the tea leaves after White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel expressed willingness to compromise on a public plan option via a "trigger" that would indefinitely delay its creation, followed by a
by Bill Scher | Jul 7, 2009 | Blog
Much of the talk (including my own) concerning prospects for a Senate clean energy and climate protection bill has been focused on the
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...
