Ezra Klein

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• Latest Installment of Make em Filibuster

  
  Swampland — Authority: 746
  As long-time readers of Swampland know, I am a big proponent of the filibuster. And I mean the Real Filibuster--not the make-believe ones that the little girls of the United States Senate are constantly waging, and not the occasional exercises where they pull out the fainting couches cots and pretend that they are ...
  2 days ago

• Klein Boggle – Just making it up

  
  Kayak2U — Authority: 433
  A Klein Boggle is a certain non-orientable argument, i.e., a contention (a one-dimensional manifest) with no distinct "logical" and "reasonable" sides. I think Ezra Klein is cracking up.  For example, yesterday : [T]he Tea Parties have been, in large part, about how much everybody hates the banks. Does anyone ...
  3 days ago

• Republicans Would Never Exaggerate A Bills Cost, Would They?

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Ezra Klein persuasively argues that the Democrats erred by wandering into a $900 billion ceiling on the cost of health care legislation. Megan McArdle responds that no, the limit makes sense: it seems to me quite obvious how the number got picked and why it became a hard limit:  it would be very difficult to ...
  4 days ago

• Is a flawed health care reform bill better than no bill at all?

  
  News — Authority: 145
  Marcia Angell, a single-payer supporter and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, says she doesnt believe the House health-care reform bill is better than nothing. Instead, she writes in the Huffington Post, it "throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system, with only a few ...
  5 days ago

• Journalism as Friend Building

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 653
  Ezra Klein points out that, while journalists like to think of themselves as intrepid sleuths, the best of them are social networkers moreso than detectives. If you go back to Woodward and Bernstein, Woodward met Felt back when he was serving in the Navy, and the two men bonded over night law school and low-level ...
  5 days ago

• Jim Cooper Discusses Stupak Amendment Without Revealing He Voted for It

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN 5) Today on Hardball, Jim Cooper was on to discuss the Stupak amendment and how the House and Senate can work through it to reach a compromise. He had a long conversation with Chris Matthews about how conservative Democrats needed this vote to sign on to the bill. He said that people were ...
  5 days ago

• Nancy Pelosi’s Essential Leadership

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  At this point, whatever you think of Nancy Pelosi’s policies – or her personality – you have to admit this: she’s ruthlessly pragmatic, knows how to wield her power effectively, has excellent political instincts, and is one of the more effective Speakers of the House in recent memory. In an interview with Ezra ...
  5 days ago

• Tom Maguire, upside Ezra Kleins head

  
  The Other McCain — Authority: 753
  " I resist the implicit notion that from a Federal perspective all your income are belong to us ," Maguire says, after Ezra plays the class-warfare card on the Stupak Amendment. What bugs me more about Kleins post: Who appointed Ezra guardian of the interests of the poor? If I dont like Ross Douthat claiming to ...
  5 days ago

• Calling Out Joe Lieberman

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Via Think Progress , Joe Liebeman was on Fox News Sunday this weekend, making filibuster threats again. LIEBERMAN: A public option plan is unnecessary. It has been put forward, I’m convinced, by people who really want the government to take over all of health insurance. They’ve got a right to do that; I think ...
  6 days ago

• Betting on the House

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 138
  Prediction: If health care reform comes up for a vote in the House of Representatives tomorrow, it will pass. OK, that’s not much of a prediction. Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t actually bring a bill to the floor unless she has the votes. And as of late Friday afternoon, she didn’t. On Capitol Hill, staff began ...
  1 week ago

• Another Great Swindle: Doctors, Hospitals, Pharma as Much to Blame as Insurers

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 439
  While the health insurance industry’s immoral, amoral and, sometimes, illegal treatment of policyholders is an appropriate prime culprit and target in the current push for reform, the fact is that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  Kaiser Permanente . Ezra Klein interviewed Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson this week – and got two fascinating posts out of it so far (with the second part of the interview still to come.) The most interesting post for me was the one that included a number of graphs , including this one.  Ezra bills these ...
  1 week ago

• Klein Boggling – What’s behind door number one is what’s behind door number two

  
  Kayak2U — Authority: 433
  A Klein Boggle is a certain non-orientable argument, i.e., a contention (a one-dimensional manifest) with no distinct "logical" and "reasonable" sides. Ezra Klein tries to split the political difference between force and force. Klein: [I]f you eventually developed a preexisting condition — asthma, say — ...
  1 week ago

• What Would Republican Health Care Reform Look Like?

  
  2parse — Authority: 129
  Yesterday, the Republicans released their health care plan. However, as Ezra Klein points out it isn’t an actual plan to fix health care as much as a plan to get people to stop asking them what their plan is : The bill is framed in terms of Republican attacks on the Democratic bill, not in terms of its own aims ...
  1 week ago

• 45 Million Uninsured: Why Does Health Care Cost So Much?

  
  BASIL & SPICE--HEALTHCARE ISSUES! — Authority: 117
  By Loyd Eskildson Almost everybody already knows that American health care costs about double that of other developed nations, that about 45 million Americans lack health insurance , and that health care costs are the leading cause of bankruptcy in America. Thus, Washingtons efforts at reforming health care by ...
  1 week ago

• Let’s Compare US Health Care Costs With Other Countries

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  The Wash Post’s Ezra Klein interviewed the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and found massive differences when looking at health care costs in the US and other countries. Yes, it’s not even close. read more
  1 week ago

• Health Care: Better, Faster, Cheaper!

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 653
  In a much discussed post, Ezra Klein produced a series of graphs showing that Americans pay more for office visits, scans and imaging, drugs, and other aspects of health care — often, far more — than is the case in Canada or Western Europe. There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so ...
  1 week ago

• Overthinking Lieberman

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 149
  Ezra Klein plays my favorite parlor game : What Does Joe Want? After breaking with the Democratic Party over national security, killing the public option would cement Liebermans status as a conservative hero. The Republican Party is angry and scared right now, and Lieberman is in the peculiar position of being ...
  1 week ago

• There are Reasons to Worry About Insurance Exchanges – Just Not Ezra’s

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  Ezra Klein at a less worrisome time (photo by ethorson) Ezra Klein wrote that he is fairly pessimistic on the effectiveness of the new health insurance exchanges. He should be–but not for the reasons he outlined. (As I have noted, health insurance marketplaces do a poor job reducing cost and need very strong risk ...
  1 week ago

• Ezra Klein’s Astonishing New Charts

  
  QandO — Authority: 142
  O r at least they seem to have astonished Klein. Here’s one as an example: My goodness. As Klein says: There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care . Anyone – what’s missing ...
  1 week ago

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