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- 2012 Views
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U.S. Health Care: Welfare for a Bloated Medical Bureaucracy
NOVEMBER 3, 2011 8:31AM
Topics: health care insurance, ewe e. reinhardt, corporate welfare, the mckinsey global institute, new york times, congressional budget office, ezekial j. emanuel, affordable care act, health care reform, health care costs, health care, health, economy, business
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The Supercommittee: A Titanic for Our Times
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 8:34AM
Topics: obama administration, mitt romney, alternative minimum tax for corporations, dick cheney, warren buffett, gridlock, john kyl, supercommittee, congressional budget office, cbo, douglas elmendorf, “budget chief seeks wholesale reordering of government priorities”, l.a. times, lisa mascaro, economic recovery, economic meltdown, economy, business, politics, sequestration
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The Looming Compromise on Revenues: A Postscript
JULY 18, 2011 5:56PM
Topics: politics, david leonhardt, gregory mankiw, martin feldstein, john boehner, paul ryan, n.y. a.d. 26 election, medicare, social security, congressional budget office, simpson-bowles deficit commission, taxes, deficit reduction, debt ceiling talks, democratic party, tea party, republican party, barack obama
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Quick, repeal it… before someone realizes it’s great
JANUARY 7, 2011 8:26AM
Topics: jimmy zuma, john boehner, speaker, house, health care, legislation, pelosi, obamacare, republican, corporatocracy, poverty, census data, vice president, biden, congressional budget office, cbo, deficit, honesty, repeal
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- 481 Views
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The Tea Party Agenda: Is It Already Slip Sliding Away ?
JANUARY 5, 2011 10:52PM
Topics: tea party movement, budget deficit reduction, health care reform, republicans, democrats, 112th congress, congressional budget office, harry truman dwight eisenhower bill clinton, newt gingrich, social security, michael beschloss, norm orenstien, american enterprise institute, jim lehrer, politics
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- 251 Views
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On Health Care Repeal, House GOP Full of Sound and Fury
JANUARY 5, 2011 9:47PM
Topics: washington monthly, suzy khimm, steve benen, snack, senate, repeal, personhood usa, pepsico, patrick caldwell, obesity, mush, mother jones, louaillier, kevin drum, kelle louaillier, insurance, house, health care reform, harry reid, grist, food, congressional budget office, child, cbo, cartoon, bonnie azab powell, american independent, alternet, affordable care act, advertising, aca
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- 534 Views
- 4 Comments
The Public Option is Back (sort of)
OCTOBER 5, 2010 4:14PM
Topics: 2012, whining, democrat base, enthusiasm gap, exchanges, hr 5808, hospital lobbyists, mitt romney, november, elections, congress, lame duck, conservatives, progressives, republicans, democrats, heritage foundation, obama, politics, health care, senate, house, pete stark, lynn woolsey, public option, congressional budget office, deficit, cbo, senate, house of representatives
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- 124 Views
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Weekly Pulse: Obama Stalls for Time with Health Care Summit
FEBRUARY 10, 2010 11:52AM
Topics: addiction, american family association, congressional budget office, democracy now!, don't ask don't tell, government controlled health care, health care, health care reform, health care summit, healthcare reform, michigan messenger, mother jones, president barack obama, re-criminalize homosexuality, reconciliation, tapped, the american prospect, the nation, underinsured, uninsured, working in these times
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- 881 Views
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The Disgusting Joe Lieberman
OCTOBER 27, 2009 7:44PM
Topics: taxpayers, tax burden, public option, pre-roosevelt, opt-out, olympia snowe, national debt, marcy wheeler, lying, joe lieberman, insurance premiums, insurance industry, gop, filibuster, entitlement, disgusting, democrat, cost-shifting, connecticut, congressional budget office
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CBO Study of Income Equality Since Reagan: We Got Screwed
JANUARY 9, 2009 1:49PM
Topics: income inequality, class war, congressional budget office
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