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Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


Michele Swenson

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

Sam Stein

GOP Pushed For Incomplete Health Care Study, Then Politicized It: Hill Dems

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics


On Monday afternoon, critics of a major health care overhaul seized on a report from the Congressional Budget Office showing that a Democratic reform ...

Sam Stein

GOP Bashed Obama Budget Using Bush Era Numbers

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics


As part of the alternative budget rollout on Tuesday, Rep. Paul Ryan published in a Wall Street Journal op-ed a chart plotting out the spending projec...

TV Media Cited Bogus CBO Report At Least 81 Times

Think Progress | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics


Last Tuesday, the AP reported on a leaked Congressional Budget Office (CBO) "analysis" that had concluded that "it will take years before an infrastru...

Ryan Grim

Controversial CBO Report On Stimulus Turns Out Not To Exist

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics


Reports of a recent study by the Congressional Budget Office, showing that the vast majority of the money in the stimulus package won't be spent until...

Sam Stein

Obama Stimulus: More Than $600 Billion In Next 18 Months

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics


Aides to Barack Obama said the president is likely to spend more than $600 billion in stimulus cash in the next year and a half alone. The president'...