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  • Grassley Goes After Proposed Medicare Payroll Tax Increase


    The Washington Independent BlogAuthority Authority: 157
    It was inevitable that conservatives would attack the Senate health care reform legislation over the proposed o.5 percent hike in Medicare’s payroll tax for the country’s highest earners. Now they’re drilling down into the specifics. Sen. Charles Grassley (Iowa), senior Republican on the Senate Finance ...
    2 days ago
  • Rethugs, I hope this gives you some cloture…I mean, closure


    HYSTERICAL RAISINSAuthority Authority: 469
    From POLITICS DAILY : With no votes to spare, Democratic senators moved health care reform past its first major hurdle Saturday night, with a party-line, 60-to-39 vote to begin consideration of the 2,000-plus page bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid unveiled this week. …snip… The bill that senators ...
    4 days ago
  • Senator Blanche Lincoln committed to the Health Care Bill


    Thaindian NewsAuthority Authority: 726
    Washington DC, Nov 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Senator Blanche Lincoln knows that she is again going to play a crucial role in the Health Care Bill. She played a very critical and crucial role in the senate debate on Saturday, as she became the 60th person to commit to moving the health care bill to [...]
    4 days ago
  • PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail


    One Man's ThoughtsAuthority Authority: 133
    Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) 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. 3962, as amended) could land ...
    6 days ago
  • A CREED FOR MEDICINE IN THE USA WHO WILL BE OUR FUTUREDOCTORS? AMA OR OMA


    StupidicaAuthority Authority: 174
    The Senate Finance Committee recently approved a 10-year, $829 billion reform package which has served as the starting point for negotiations on a final bill – the first health reform bill considered in Congress in decades. But as leaders in Washington move forward with healthcare reform, we would like to remind them ...
    6 days ago
  • Virginia News Stand: November 19, 2009


    FamilyFoundationBlog.comAuthority Authority: 138
    Annotations & Elucidations Breaking News: Next Budget Shortfall $3.5 Billion! Breaking news this evening: Senate Finance Committee analysts told that committee’s members this afternoon that the next two-year budget will be $3.5 billion short, not to mention the current budget lacking another $209 ...
    1 week ago
  • Virginia News Stand: November 19, 2009


    FamilyFoundationBlog.comAuthority Authority: 138
    Annotations & Elucidations Breaking News: Next Budget Shortfall $3.5 Billion! Breaking news this evening: Senate Finance Committee analysts told that committee’s members this afternoon that the next two-year budget will be $3.5 billion short, not to mention the current budget lacking another $209 ...
    1 week ago
  • TAXES: Panel: Treasury Nominee Made Tax Errors


    PA Pundits - InternationalAuthority Authority: 491
    By Peter Cohn UPDATED WITH TREASURY REACTION – Another Obama administration nominee is in hot water over tax issues. Senate Finance Committee leaders today announced that Lael Brainard, President Obama’s nominee for Treasury undersecretary for international affairs, made several late payments and ...
    1 week ago
  • A Taxing Time for Treasury Nominee


    NYT > TheaterAuthority Authority: 908
    The Senate Finance Committee continues its wellknown digging into nominees backgrounds.
    1 week ago
  • A Taxing Time for Treasury Nominee


    The CaucusAuthority Authority: 791
    The Senate Finance Committee continues its wellknown digging into nominees backgrounds.
    1 week ago
  • 3 pain points to watch as health reform moves to Senate


    Work FanaticAuthority Authority: 134
    The latest healthcare reform bill just passed the House. But making it through the Senate will be even harder as a few rough edges still need some smoothing. Three things both the House and Senate do agree on: Requiring most people to carry health insurance or pay a penalty Providing “affordability ...
    1 week ago
  • 3 pain points to watch as health reform moves to Senate


    HRMorning.comAuthority Authority: 140
    The latest healthcare reform bill just passed the House. But making it through the Senate will be even harder as a few rough edges still need some smoothing. Three things both the House and Senate do agree on: Requiring most people to carry health insurance or pay a penalty Providing “affordability ...
    1 week ago
  • A Sweetheart Deal for Big Business


    The Washington Independent BlogAuthority Authority: 157
    As we mentioned here last week, the recently passed jobless benefits extension, though packaged as a boost for Main Street, provided many times more funding to the nation’s businesses, including the largest corporations. Specifically, the law allows companies to recover already-paid taxes by applying ...
    1 week ago
  • Is a Federal Mandate Constitutional?


    Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & DirectoryAuthority Authority: 168
    Journalist Ezra Klein has come out in favor of the proposition that a federal health insurance mandate is constitutional, but the question remains a thorny legal problem. If a reform bill is passed with an individual mandate, will it pass constitutional muster? The answer isn’t quite as clear as Klein would have ...
    1 week ago
  • The Rationing Commission


    John Goodman's Health Policy BlogAuthority Authority: 529
    As envisioned by the Senate Finance Committee, the commission would have to meet certain budget targets each year: Starting in 2015, Medicare could not grow more rapidly on a per capita basis than by a measure of inflation. After 2019, it could only grow at the same rate as GDP, plus one percentage point. Until ...
    1 week ago
  • John Kerry Calls Out Climate Change Denier B.S.


    Life within meAuthority Authority: 139
    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 weeks ago
  • Grassley Flips on Health Insurance Mandate


    The Washington IndependentAuthority Authority: 760
    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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • More Trade News


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    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” ...
    2 weeks ago
  • ObamaCare’s ‘Sweetheart Deal’ for PhRMA


    Cato @ LibertyAuthority Authority: 746
    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 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • David Leonhardt tries to do Obamas job for him, part II


    xpostfactoidAuthority Authority: 494
    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 ...
    2 weeks ago

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