Way back on A18 of the NYT, veteran reporter Robert Pear tells us this:
WASHINGTON — Hospitals and insurance companies said Thursday that President Obama had substantially overstated their promise earlier this week to reduce the growth of health spending.
Mr. Obama invited health industry leaders to the White House on
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TIME’s own Tuned In maestro James Poniewozik does what literary theorists like to call a “close reading” of the Wall Street Journal’s policy on employee Twitter use. I’d bet my lunch money that no TIME editor reviewed his logic before he posted it, just as no one reviewed this repost. Or this tweet. (The horror! The fear!)
I’ve been
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There’s more today from Lawrence Wilkerson, who was Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, via TPM: one purpose of the torture regime was to extract the (non-existent) links between Iraq and Al Qaeda from detainees. There’s also a report that Cheney’s office ordered the torture of an Iraqi detainee. These are important, obscene things to …
. . . for $1.99 and you can read my latest story about the Democratic obstacles that Obama faces as he tries to get his legislative agenda through Congress. The nut:
Despite Obama’s early legislative victories — including passage of the largest stimulus bill in history — the new President has learned how limited his power can be,
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On our Afghan and Pakistani allies.
As my family learned the hard way when my brother developed kidney disease, you may not know until you really need that coverage. And all too often, the answer is — not enough.
The fact is, it’s hard to be an informed consumer when you are buying a product as complicated as health insurance. As Georgetown University’s Karen Pollitz …
A picture is worth more than a thousand words to an illiterate. The literacy rate in the non-urban areas of Afghanistan and North West Pakistan is less than 10%. Thousands of American troops will be pouring into southern Afghanistan this summer. They will have their hands full with the Taliban. As it is, they have to overcome the …
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(As usual, thanks to our friends at the C-SPAN Video Library)
Senate Republicans are expected to bring down the first of President’s nominees: David Hayes, Obama’s pick for the No. 2 slot at the Interior Department. The vote, expected at 10:30, has nothing to do with Hayes’ qualifications; he was confirmed to the identical post nine years ago under the Clinton Administration. Western …
Hard to miss in the flood of health care news this week is the fact that it has been all about cost–with relatively little mention of the other goal of health care reform, universal coverage. Of course, many health experts argue that it is impossible to achieve the former without the latter. But curbing the cost of health care is a more …
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As a start, Peter Orszag uses his blog today to try to, uh, “clear the air” of the growing controversy over OMB’s document suggesting that the EPA’s recent carbon regulation will cause serious economic problems.
MEANWHILE: Marc Ambinder solves the entire nothing burger …
It’s not a surprise, exactly, but scary nonetheless: The recession is taking its toll on the Medicare and Social Security trust funds, which are careening even faster toward insolvency:
The new projection, in an annual report from the programs’ trustees, says that Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund will be exhausted in
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