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by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D. Delivered at a Town Hall Meeting on [Read More →]
By Eric Singer
The main driver of the collapse of the dollar is the liquidity provided by the Fed at nominal interest rates, which invites a worldwide army of investors to short the dollar and buy foreign stocks and bonds. If the dollar continues to fall in value, these investors are effectively paid to borrow as long [Read More →]
A plan to slice $500 billion from Medicare over the next decade — one of the most significant sources of funding for President Obama’s health care overhaul — would not jeopardize services for Medicare patients, reform advocates argued Monday, challenging a government report suggesting that the cuts could prompt hospitals and other providers to stop participating in the program.
— Lori Montgomery — Washington Post Blog 44
By Ruy Teixeira — Center for American Progress
November 16, 2009
Conservatives are putting up a last ditch effort to stop health care reform. They’re doing their level best to scare the public, telling them that passing health care reform will take the country down the road to socialism and ruin the economy, among other things. But the public, [Read More →]
by Chris Good of The Atlantic
November 13, 2009
39 Democrats voted against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) health care reform package last Saturday, and conventional wisdom says this was a good move, campaign-wise. These lawmakers represent conservative districts–31 of 39 of which backed McCain in 2008–and the Democratic health care reform (whatever that may be, exactly) is opposed, [Read More →]
By Michael Cohn on WebCPA.com
November 13, 2009
Washington has continued to be abuzz with talk of new ways to pay for health care reform, despite the passage about a week ago of the House version of the bill.
The Senate has yet to vote on its own version of the legislation, which was only recently formed from the spare parts [Read More →]
…Despite all rhetoric to the contrary, the public-option plan emerging from the debate over healthcare is far from what we were initially promised: a deficit-neutral, bipartisan plan that would cover most — if not all — of the approximately 40 to 50 million uninsured individuals in the country. Besides the theoretical consideration that this plan will severely restrict individual liberties, it is also likely to have unintended and serious consequences on future generations, beginning with our own.
— Jeffrey Robin — Daily Nexus University of California, Santa Barbara
By MARCI A. HAMILTON on FindLaw.com
November 12, 2009
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops registered a major victory this week, when it succeeded in pressuring members of the House to include in the healthcare reform bill the so-called “Stupak Amendment.” The Amendment is a provision that carves out new territory for those organizations and persons who oppose abortion [Read More →]
By Marc Pascal — The Moderate Voice
November 11, 2009
Anti-abortion and pro-life advocates successfully added an Amendment to the House Health Reform Bill that prohibited any Federal Funds from subsidizing private insurance purchases by individuals and families on public exchanges that would cover abortions. Pro-abortion and pro-choice advocates cried foul and the amendment constituted an impermissible limit [Read More →]
Congressman Phil Hare (D-IL) today voted for the Affordable Health Care for America Act, legislation that would make health care more affordable and accessible for all Americans.
“After decades of failed attempts to fix our broken health care system which costs too much and covers too few, today we are taking a giant leap toward affordable insurance for all Americans,” Hare said. “I have never been prouder to cast a vote during my service in the House of Representatives.”
The Affordable Health Care for America Act would drastically reduce the number of uninsured, increase competition and lower costs through a public option, reform the insurance industry so Americans don’t see their coverage unfairly denied or dropped, and put more money in our seniors’ pockets by closing the Medicare Part D doughnut hole, all while reducing the deficit by $104 billion over 10 years.
— Congressman Phil Hare, Illinois 17th District