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Archive for June 13th, 2009
13 Jun
Promise Kept rulings on the Obameter
Promise Kept rulings on the Obameter No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners Create a $10 billion fund to help homeowners refinance or sell their homes. “The Fund will not help speculators, people who bought vacation homes or people who falsely represented their incomes.”>>More No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights [...]
13 Jun
Promise Broken rulings on the Obameter
Promise Broken rulings on the Obameter No. 24: End income tax for seniors making less than $50,000 “Will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors — saving them an average of $1,400 a year– and will also mean that 27 million seniors [...]
13 Jun
What’s So Threatening About Sotomayor’s Real Life to Her Right-Wing Critics?
By Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. Posted June 12, 2009. For over 120 years, the idea that a judge’s background would influence how they approached cases was conventional wisdom. Why isn’t it now? Sonia Sotomayor’s critics and backers have spent recent weeks parsing one line of a speech she gave in 2001 during a conference at Berkeley [...]
13 Jun
Competitive Health Care
A Public Health Insurance Plan that Delivers Market Discipline SOURCE: iStockphoto The choice of a public health insurance plan and health insurance exchange will private insurance plans to innovate in ways regulatory enforcement will not. By Peter Harbage, Karen Davenport | March 25, 2009 Read the full report, CAP Action Doctors and patients, employees and [...]
13 Jun
Supreme Hypocrisy
thinkprogress.org JUSTICE Supreme Hypocrisy Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced this week that Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings will begin on July 13, timing that closely mirrors Chief Justice John Roberts’ Senate confirmation schedule. Therefore, Sotomayor’s hearings will start 48 days after her nomination was announced; Roberts received a hearing after 51 days. The [...]
13 Jun
MAKING MEDICARE AFFORDABLE
Asclepios Your Weekly Medicare Consumer Advocacy Update June 11, 2009 • Volume 9, Issue 23 Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Representatives Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) and Xavier Becerra (D-CA) have introduced legislation to ensure that millions of low-income older adults and people with disabilities receive assistance in paying for medical care and prescription drugs. The bills expand [...]
13 Jun
SENIORS DRAWN TO MORTGAGES THAT GIVE BACK
By NICK TIMIRAOS Wall St. Journal, June 10, 2009 Here’s one segment of the mortgage market that’s still hot: federally insured reverse mortgages, which enable senior citizens to take money out of their homes. In March and April, the number of reverse mortgages backed by the government jumped nearly 20% from the same period last [...]
