thinkprogress.org HEALTH CARE The Final Act For Health Reform: This afternoon, the House Budget Committee will begin marking-up the health care reconciliation package, signaling the beginning of the end of the Democrats’ year-long effort to pass comprehensive health care reform. Congressional leaders have urged members to clear their schedules for the weekend in anticipation of final [...]
Archive for March, 2010
14 Mar
Why don’t honest journalists take on Roger Ailes and Fox News?
washingtonpost.com By Howell Raines Sunday, March 14, 2010 One question has tugged at my professional conscience throughout the year-long congressional debate over health-care reform, and it has nothing to do with the public option, portability or medical malpractice. It is this: Why haven’t America’s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on Roger Ailes, chief of [...]
12 Mar
Smart debt, dumb debt — there is a difference
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, March 11, 2010 Because we never face up to how much we need government to do, there is a pathetic quality to our discussion of big deficits. It’s a debate also characterized by a politically convenient amnesia. Just a decade ago, we were running surpluses so big that Alan Greenspan, [...]
7 Mar
Karl Rove sets the record straight — sort of
washingtonpost.com By Dana Milbank Sunday, March 7, 2010 As a White House reporter during the Bush presidency, I often worried that I wasn’t getting the whole story. Now, Karl Rove has finally given it to me. His new book, “Courage and Consequence,” promises to “pull back the curtain on my journey to the White House [...]
6 Mar
Lessons of a $618,616 Death
Suddenly Senior We found this article of interest to seniors, and hope you do too. Information and views expressed are that of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Frank Kaiser or Suddenly Senior or its sponsor… Two years after her husband’s death, Amanda Bennett’s cover story examines the costs of keeping [...]
5 Mar
545 people vs 300 million people
545 PEOPLE–By Charlie Reese What the hell happened – 545 people vs 300 million people This is about as clear and easy to understand as it can be – read it!! The article below is completely neutral, …not anti republican or democrat. Charlie Reese, a retired reporter for the Orlando Sentinal has hit the [...]
5 Mar
Health reform that won’t break the bank
By Peter Orszag and Nancy-Ann DeParle Friday, March 5, 2010 Health-insurance reform offers many benefits, such as common-sense rules of the road and basic consumer protections to keep insurance companies honest and prevent them from denying coverage to anyone because of a preexisting medical condition. But some critics complain that the administration has slipped in [...]
4 Mar
Republicans and Healthcare
“The Republicans have repeatedly said that they agree with 80 percent of what’s in our bill.” Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 in a roundtable segment on NBC’s Meet the Press Wasserman Schultz says Republicans regularly say they agree with 80 percent of health care. On the Feb. 28, 2010, edition of NBC’s [...]
4 Mar
Ten Facts about IRS Volunteer Tax Assistance
Suddenly Senior Taxpayers looking for tax preparation assistance should look into IRS sponsored, community-based, volunteer tax return preparation programs. Here are the top 10 things the IRS wants you to know about these volunteer programs. 1. The IRS sponsors both the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and Tax Counseling for the Elderly programs. 2. The IRS [...]
4 Mar
The Republicans’ big lie about reconciliation
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Thursday, March 4, 2010 For those who feared that Barack Obama did not have any Lyndon Johnson in him, the president’s determination to press ahead and get health-care reform done in the face of Republican intransigence came as something of a relief. Obama’s critics have regularly accused him of not being [...]
3 Mar
Republican Positions
Capping for America’s Future ✓ Poppycock! BILL SCHER Bunning Fails Economics 101: Why Deficits Saved The World In Sen. Jim Bunning’s words, he’s not obstructing because he’s against unemployment insurance. (That would be Sen. Jon Kyl) . He just wants the cost of extending unemployment insurance to be offset by cutting back on the Recovery [...]
2 Mar
No more concessions on health reform
Boston.com DERRICK Z. JACKSON By Derrick Z. Jackson Globe Columnist / March 2, 2010 THERE HAS been no discussion of single payer. The public option has been ditched. President Obama received no Republican support at his nationally-televised health care forum last week. In response, the Democrats must not concede any more in the final lurch [...]
