In Search of Budget Sanity: A Dispatch From the Belly of the Beast
At a session on the looming debt crisis comprised of Republicans, Democrats, and others, one of the key findings of the group is that the "process is broken."
At a session on the looming debt crisis comprised of Republicans, Democrats, and others, one of the key findings of the group is that the "process is broken."
Joanne Doroshow | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics
The most powerful people in the health care debate right now can be found on the 4th floor of the Ford House Office Building, a nondescript WPA government structure once used by the FBI to store fingerprint records.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics
There is, currently, a nightmare scenario afflicting Democrats on Capitol Hill with regards to health care reform. And it goes like this: Sometime ear...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
Only $100 billion of the $787 billion stimulus package passed nine months ago has actually been spent by the federal government so far, with another $...
Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Turkey, cranberry sauce, and a side of health care debate is dominating Thanksgiving tables this year. The debate gets more heated when some worry that their situation will be adversely affected.
Nov. 19, 2009 | Jeanne Sahadi | Posted 11.20.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Here's a new way to think about the U.S. government's epic borrowing: More than half of the $9 trillion in debt that Uncle ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that roughly 33 states -- or two out of every three -- would offer a national, government-run insurance opti...
The Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul ...
Joanne Doroshow | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Tort "reform" is a doozy of a misnomer. There is certainly nothing positive or beneficial about it.
Brendan Smith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
How many epidemics and Katrinas will it take to expose the myth that the U.S. economy is somehow exempt from the threats of climate change?
Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
A new report from the Congressional Budget Office attempts to put a number on the amount of money the government has poured into the housing market. C...
AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — What's all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats' push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carrier...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Two competing House health care reform proposals would extend coverage to at least 35 million Americans within ten years, according to a Congressional...
Peter Dreier | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
"Much has been given" to those Americans at the pinnacle of wealth. So it is only fair that "much will be required" when it comes to helping pay for health insurance for those who can't otherwise afford it.
Robin Baker | Posted 10.12.2009 | Denver
The Finance Committee's proposal would impose a tax on employer-sponsored insurance for plans with costs above $21,000 for a family. In Colorado, the average annual premium cost was $11,952 for a family.
Michael J. Wilson | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Without the public option, the truth is that we have a bill that might cost the government less, but costs consumers more. The public option will create the competition needed to drive down prices of private insurance.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
For the past few weeks Republicans have latched onto the $1,761 energy tax lie to oppose clean energy legislation.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-yea...
John Zogby | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
This is the fork in the road for the Senate's Democratic leaders: they must choose between the tort lawyers and a health care bill that could re-unite a country that has turned against the present bill.
Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics
"Basically, I do agree with the President that we need some kind of health care reform," says Anh in a Q and A. "Now, what kind of reform are we going to get? That is the question."
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
In case there was any doubt that Social Security won't be able to keep the promises it's making to anyone younger than, say, 55, the CBO now projects that Social Security will start operating at a deficit next year.
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
When your position is based on ignoring science to prop up polluting industries -- as is the case for many Republican politicians -- you have little choice but to cite misleading statistics to make your point.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
President Obama promised last week, in his address to Congress, that he wouldn't sign any health care reform bill that added "one dime to the deficit,...
David Fiderer | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
By referencing dubious numbers from a tainted source, Samuelson seeks to establish a bogus equivalency. Yes, the Republicans lied about death panels, but Obama is dishonest too, he argues.
David Fiderer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media
A lot of people buy in to Brooks' pseudo-intellectual shtick for making grand pronouncements that presume to define reality.
John Milewski | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics