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• John Kerry Calls Out Climate Change Denier B.S.

  
  Life within me — Authority: 138
  A hack of an “environmental scholar” working for an organization that consistently seeks to undermine efforts to fight global warming got schooled on climate change policy by Senator John Kerry during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on November 10th. Kerry rebuked Green’s comments for a solid five minutes, ...
  2 days ago

• Grassley Flips on Health Insurance Mandate

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 774
  Here’s Sen. Charles Grasssley (R-Iowa) in June, telling Fox News that requiring people to buy health insurance is a good idea, analogous to states requiring drivers to purchase car insurance: There isn’t anything wrong with it, except some people look at it as an infringement upon individual freedom. But when ...
  3 days ago

• More Trade News

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  My colleague Dan Griswold pointed out yesterday some unfortunate editing in the Washington Post. Here are a couple of other trade-related items in the news recently: Sen. Max Baucus (D, MT and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee) has seemingly thrown his weight behind the idea of “border measures” ...
  4 days ago

• ObamaCare’s ‘Sweetheart Deal’ for PhRMA

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  The New Republic ’s Jonathan Cohn reports that back in March, IMS Health projected slightly negative revenue growth for the pharmaceutical industry but recently changed that projection to 3.5-percent annual growth from 2008 through 2013. “What changed?” Cohn asks. “A major factor, according to IMS, was the ...
  4 days ago

• David Leonhardt tries to do Obamas job for him, part II

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 422
  David Leonhardt continues to do yeomans work explaining the stakes and outlining the means of health care cost control. Today he compares cost control measures in the House bill, which he finds wanting, with those in the Senate Finance Committee bill, which are stronger. His main theme: that the true test of the ...
  4 days ago

• Baucus wants border measures in climate bill

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 669
  Uh-oh.  Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) is raising the stakes on a U.S. climate bill by endorsing the idea of some sort of tariff on goods from countries that haven’t taken steps to suppress fossil fuel use.  According to Reuters, Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, yesterday said: “We must push ...
  5 days ago

• Dodd Unveils Senate Plan for Financial Overhaul

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 786
  Senator Christopher J. Dodd on Tuesday proposed to dramatically overhaul the regulatory system in a measure that differs in major respects from both the White House and House plans.
  5 days ago

• Health Care: Not Close to Over

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 738
  The fat lady hasn’t even started to warm up yet. The narrow 220-215 victory in the House on Saturday night was a step forward on the road to a government takeover of the health care system.  But as close and dramatic as that vote was, that was the easy part.  The Senate must still pass its version of ...
  6 days ago

• Obama Administration: Horse Trading For Healthcare Control

  
  Carter's Second Term — Authority: 99
  Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have announced the new House healthcare reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), with any more pomp and circumstance. It was certainly more impressive than the Senate’s mouse-like rollout, apparently intended to avoid rubbing salt in the Baucus “bipartisanship” ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Administration: Horse Trading For Healthcare Control

  
  MAXINE — Authority: 111
  Nancy Pelosi couldn’t have announced the new House healthcare reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), with any more pomp and circumstance. It was certainly more impressive than the Senate’s mouse-like rollout, apparently intended to avoid rubbing salt in the Baucus “bipartisanship” ...
  1 week ago

• NANCY PELOSI: ‘Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 544
  Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-Mich.) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. ...
  1 week ago

• Overdraft fees — consumer banks v. consumers

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  Consumer banking has largely been about screwing the customer for a long time — at least as far as the large, national, impersonal banks (you know, the ones that advertise on television) go. Long ago, something like 15 years ago, I wrote an article for a business magazine on some of the underhanded techniques ...
  1 week ago

• Rockefeller: Proposal to Repeal CHIP Is ‘Harmful’ and ‘Intolerable’

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who last month salvaged the Children’s Health Insurance Program in the Senate’s health reform bill, just issued a statement condemning the House legislation for proposing to terminate the program. “As health reform moves forward, we need to make sure children can keep their ...
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• Harry Reid’s Health Care Reform Dilemma: The Myth of the 60th Democratic Senator

  
  The Alan Katz Health Care Reform Blog — Authority: 116
  If asked even two weeks ago I’d have said there was an 80 percent change or greater that meaningful health care reform would be signed into law this year. Now, however, I think the chances of such an outcome are far lower – still substantial – but much less likely. One reason meaningful health care reform may ...
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• Health Reform Hits The House

  
  The Future of Aging Blog — Authority: 122
  The U.S. House of Representatives soon will vote on the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), a landmark bill ensuring that millions of Americans, will have access to health care coverage they have never had before.Efforts to make this coverage a reality go back almost a hundred years, through the ...
  1 week ago

• How Much Does the Pelosi Bill Really Cost?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 565
  According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press release, the cost is $894 billion. But this figure is net of certain new revenues, including penalties by individuals and employers who fail to meet new insurance requirements in the bill. Were the Senate Finance Committee (Baucus) bill reported the same way, its cost ...
  1 week ago

• The Adverse-Selection Problem

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 165
  Current Democratic health-care proposals will have unintended consequences—bad ones. ___ ... even if you accept the idea of mandating health insurance for everyone—an idea open to plenty of objections, both philosophical and practical—there’s a major problem with the Senate Finance Committee’s bill. In order to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nine More Dems Urge Wyden ‘Free Choice’ Proposal

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Few lawmakers on planet earth have pushed more persistently for health care reform in the past decade than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.). And although Wyden’s own enormous blueprint for a health system overhaul was largely ignored through this year’s debate, the Oregon Democrat has had a great deal of luck tweaking ...
  2 weeks ago

• TED MED Day 2: Plastic Bags Are Choking the World, Killing Animals

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  Day Two of TED MED is over (see Day One’s coverage here ), and people sound antsy to put words into action.  Peter Menzel’s speech on the environmental and health catastrophe caused by plastic bags did its job; says one tweeter: “Plastic bags are a f*&%ing scourge. clogging storm drains in Yemen during ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jon Stewart and the Curious Case of Health Care Reform

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  I know I keep posting Jon Stewart clips about health care but I find the entire thing so frustrating and watching Stewart is really one of the only things that makes me feel better.  He does such a good job at pointing out all the problems with those who oppose the public option and providing us with facts and ...
  2 weeks ago

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