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Getting named New York’s junior senator apparently requires pandering to those who support Israel’s right wing.
From Nick Confessore’s written interview with Caroline Kennedy (and her staff) in the New York Times:
Q. Do you believe that an undivided Jerusalem must be the national capital of the State of Israel?
A. Yes, Caroline believes that an undivided Jerusalem […]
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The Church of Universal Coverage is telling us that national health insurance will stimulate economic growth.
Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) says universal health insurance coverage is the key to a healthy economy.
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber says “health care reform is good for our economy.”
Business Week columnist Chris Farrell writes, “Universal coverage would stimulate […]
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Today’s The USA Today tells the story of “Phyllis Smith, a 60-year-old uninsured seamstress in Yantis, Texas, [who] goes without medications for high blood pressure and diabetes because she can’t afford a visit to her doctor to get her prescriptions refilled.” The article quotes Smith:
With the condition this world is in right now, [Barack Obama] […]
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After so many PG-13 stories about health care reform and a new administration that everybody’s really hoping makes it happen, the press is starting to write rated-R stories about the actual chances for comprehensive reform. Today, I was quoted in a couple of the R-rated stories.
Investor’s Business Daily reports on two Congressional Budget Office […]
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The latest issue of The Economist praises president elect Obama’s pick of Arne Duncan to lead the department of education. In particular, it predicts that “Mr Duncan may restore the spirit of co-operation that helped pass NCLB in 2001.”
But bi-partisanship is not intrinsically desirable. It is only good when it results in good policies. NCLB has […]
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More on that Rosen piece in the New Republic on the Department of Homeland Security (a name we should change, by the way) that Dave Rittgers just wrote about. As Rosen notes, a society that is rational about danger, in the sense of equal attention to risks of equal magnitude, would not have created a Department of Homeland […]
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Nice health care lecture
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