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• Whats The Plan, Man?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Whats going on with the latest health care kabuki theater in the "progressive", er, regressive blogosphere? Well, apparently quite a bit, in the last couple of days. Lets review. Ezra Klein has already dutifully picked up on the cues I spoke of last week , and has begun asplaining to us dummies out here how the ...
  14 hours ago

• The rougher road to health care cost control

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 495
  There may be an ironic turn of the screw in the argument of an Urban Institute health policy paper by Robert Berenson, John Holahan and Stephen Zuckerman that a "hard trigger" for a strong public option may have a better chance of controlling health care inflation than the weak public options currently included in ...
  14 hours ago

• Sometimes, Health Reform Isnt About Health Reform

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Ezra Klein packs a lot of wisdom into this paragraph: The first problem for people who care about policy outcomes--regardless of which direction they care about those outcomes from--is that the Congress has developed an overwhelming bias toward inaction and the status quo. It is much stronger now than it has been ...
  2 days ago

• Trading Off the Public Option

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 747
  Ezra Klein appeared on MSNBC’s Countdown Wednesday, and repeated his view that if progressive Democrats were forced to give up on what is now a watered down public option, they should get worthwhile features that achieve the public option’s intended goals. From Ezra’s blog : Having something called a ...
  3 days ago

• Living With Another Public Option Compromise

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  As you’ve probably read or heard by now, the public option debate seems headed back to an old compromise, albeit with a new twist or two. This clearly isn’t good news. But I’m not sure it’s awful news, either. In the two weeks since Harry Reid rounded up sixty votes to begin debate on his health reform bill, ...
  4 days ago

• Daily Treatment, Too Much Going On Edition

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Too much going on today for this blogger to cover. Fortunately, Im not alone on the beat... Reform without a public option would still be a progressive victory. Chris Bowers But if progressives give ground on the public option, what will they get in return? Ezra Klein Opponents of health care reform tell a ...
  4 days ago

• Ezra Klein...Youre Beautiful When Youre Angry

  
  Capital Gains and Games — Authority: 646
  Ezra Klein totally unloaded yesterday on the deficit hawks who have been largely or completely silent on paying for the $30 BILLION its going to cost to send the additional troops to Afghanistan.  Heres the money quote: ...this town is packed full of deficit hawks. Where are the editorial pages on this? Wheres ...
  4 days ago

• And it was said that bloggers shall inherit the earth.

  
  2parse — Authority: 128
  A bit under the weather – but not with swine flu apparently. That accounts for the lack of Tuesday blogging. So, let me briefly blog about…..blogging. Ezra Klein chews on something I’ve been thinking about, as I set my opinions into the public domain day after day, with my name attached to it. As the ...
  5 days ago

• To repeat, the CBO found that premiums go down under health-care reform

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 681
  By GottaLaff Dear Ezra Klein, thank you : Commentary on the Congressional Budget Office report showing that a given health-care insurance policy will become cheaper under reform has gotten a bit confused. Fox News, for instance, summarized the report as saying, ‘CBO: HC Overhaul Likely Won’t ...
  5 days ago

• A Celebrity Only DC Could Love

  
  Endless Simmer - A Food Blog — Authority: 500
  I don’t know about you, but I won’t be cooking much this week.  DAD GANSIE sent me back with a shit ton of left overs: pureed squash with sage and goat cheese (that was stuffed into phyllo dough triangles), mashed potatoes, stuffing, Thai curry sweet potato soup (pureed sweet potatoes with turkey stock, lime ...
  6 days ago

• Worth Reading

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  Luxury goods cause people to think more about themselves than others. The average senator is three times richer than the typical House member. Exiting BusinessWeek economist Michael Mandel has a new blog . Will ours be another investment-less recovery? Plunger Time: Thanksgiving is the busiest plumbing ...
  1 week ago

• Mark Bittman and Ezra Klein on how to eat rationally on Thanksgiving (and other days)

  
  Jaltcoh — Authority: 419
  
  1 week ago

• Economic Tips for Limiting Your Pumpkin Pie Intake

  
  Economix — Authority: 740
  A behavioral economist offers some principles to help you control your Thanksgiving food consumption.
  1 week ago

• Daily Treatment, Giving Thanks Edition

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  Readers may have noticed that the "Daily Treatment" isnt really daily. Instead, its daily when I have time to write it, which isnt as often as I would like. And thats unfortunate. It means I dont get to chance to highlight many worthy articles--or, more important, to thank, implicitly, the writers and thinkers whose ...
  1 week ago

• Odds and ends for 11/24

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 435
  Memo to college football’s Bowl Championship Series : Hiring Ari Fleischer to improve your image is like hiring Jenna Jameson to be the spokesbabe for abstinence. Just a few questions for the global-warming deniers who claim the recent hacked scientist e-mails prove global warming is a hoax : “Which ...
  1 week ago

• David Brooks gins up another faux consensus

  
  xpostfactoid — Authority: 495
  "It’s easy to get lost in the weeds," David Brooks warns , "when talking about health care reform." So Brooks, that genial guide, kindly leads readers off a cliff. Declining to explain in any detail why he thinks the robust cost-control measures in the Senate health care bill would fail if enacted, Brooks relies ...
  1 week ago

• What Is David Broder Thinking?

  
  Capital Gains and Games — Authority: 646
  David Broder has a column in todays The Washington Post that I find close to incomprehensible.  First he says that the Congressional Budget Offices substantive, detailed analysis shows that the bill proposed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) will reduce the deficit.  (Note to David: CBO does not ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Were Reading ...

  
  Economix — Authority: 740
  Visualizing the decline of empires and other economics coverage from around the Web.
  2 weeks ago

• Worth Reading

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  The growth of dark pools is making stock market volume data less reliable . Regional Fed presidents fearful of losing power and autonomy under Dodd plan. Despite getting paid less, women have the same job satisfaction as men. Goldman disagrees with Roubinis carry bubble theory. Ezra Klein: Why would any ...
  2 weeks ago

• Listen to These Eggheads

  
  The New Republic - the treatment Feed — Authority: 139
  A group of economists has issued a letter endorsing both the principles of cost control in the Senate Finance bill and the idea of health care reform more generally. But this is not just any old group of economists. This is an unusually impressive group, including a pair of Nobel laureates and some figures who dont ...
  2 weeks ago

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