By Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — In a rebuke of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal bank regulator erred in quashing efforts by New York state to combat the kind of predatory mortgage lending that triggered the nation’s financial crisis. The 5-4 ruling by the high court [...]
Archive for June, 2009
29 Jun
New AARP Calculator May Help You Avoid the Doughnut Hole
By: Patricia Barry | Source: AARP Bulletin Today | June 24, 2009 This year more than 3.5 million Medicare beneficiaries are expected to fall into the dreaded Part D doughnut hole—the gap in coverage when they pay the full cost of their prescription drugs while still paying premiums. Now AARP has developed an easy-to-use online [...]
29 Jun
What can I do to help Obama?
The public has to force him to do the right thing By Robert Reich Illustration by Zach Trenholm June 29, 2009 | Someone recently approached me at the cheese counter of a local supermarket, asking, “What can I do?” At first I thought the person was seeking advice about a choice of cheese. But I [...]
28 Jun
Priceless: ‘English-Only’ Supporters Hold Conference, Can’t Spell ‘Conference’
Posted by Lee Fang, Think Progress at 12:00 PM on June 22, 2009. Speaking under a misspelled banner, right-wingers who want to make English the official language of the U.S. showed no sense of irony. On Saturday, Pat Buchanan hosted a conference to discuss how Republicans can regain a majority in America. During one discussion, [...]
27 Jun
In Poll, Wide Support for Government-Run Health
By KEVIN SACK and MARJORIE CONNELLY Published: June 20, 2009 Americans overwhelmingly support substantial changes to the health care system and are strongly behind one of the most contentious proposals Congress is considering, a government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Document Reader: Complete Poll [...]
27 Jun
Pros & Cons of Government Healthcare
By Deborah White, About.com Guide to US Liberal Politics since 2005 Monday June 22, 2009 Two new national polls make it clear that Americans overwhelmingly support healthcare reform which offers multiple plan options. And that Americans want… demand… that one of those options be low-cost government-funded healthcare (aka, public plan or public option) similar to [...]
26 Jun
PhRMA’s Big Promise
Your Weekly Medicare Consumer Advocacy Update June 25, 2009 • Volume 9, Issue 25 PhRMA, the brand-name drug manufacturers’ lobby, promised this week that drug companies would provide a 50 percent discount on brand-name drugs in the doughnut hole, the coverage gap built into the Part D drug benefit. The discounts would be available starting July [...]
26 Jun
The Two Trillion Dollar Solution
Center for American Progress Saving Money by Modernizing the Health Care System Fundamental health system reform involving just three strategies will lead to federal savings of about $550 billion over the next decade. SOURCE: iStockphoto By Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, David M. Cutler | June 24, 2009 Read the full report (pdf) Download the executive summary [...]
26 Jun
The Public Health Insurance Option As A Strong Competitor
Featured blog entries-CAF 5/28/09 4:25 PM Jason Rosenbaum2 Health Care for All 501c(3) health insurance public plan Issues Now! Jacob Hacker at Campaign for America’s Future laid out the case for a Medicare-like public health insurance option: A Medicare-like public plan would be much more stable and secure than other approaches. It would provide the [...]
26 Jun
IMMIGRATION
thinkprogress.org Time For The ‘Heavy Lifting’ To Begin At a bipartisan meeting with congressional lawmakers yesterday, President Obama pledged “that he would push for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s immigration system by early next year.” “It’s going to require some heavy lifting,” Obama said. “It’s going to require a victory of practicality and common [...]
25 Jun
START A BILL TO PLACE ALL POLITICIANS ON SOCIAL SECURITY
Propose this in 2009: ———————————- SOCIAL SECURITY: Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions during election years. Our Senators and Congresswomen do not pay into Social Security and, of course, they do not collect from it. You see, Social Security benefits were not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. They felt they [...]
