WASHINGTON — Senators voted Wednesday to charge international travelers a $10 fee to help pay for a new nonprofit corporation that would promote...
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
The former investment adviser in me says that rather than fight the concept, embrace higher taxes as a likelihood and adjust your life as much as possible.
James S. Marks | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The CBO is a valuable resource for elected officials for measuring the economic value of legislation. But it doesn't automatically score what we as Americans value, especially our health.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
One of the easiest ways to lower health care costs, as President Barack Obama frequently points out, is to take steps so that people don't get sick in...
Reuters | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Congressional Budget Office may be missing potential savings from various health reform proposals by not looking at efforts...
Dean Baker | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Members of Congress would be foolish to ignore the projections provided by the CBO, however they would be irresponsible if they treated this analysis as the final word.
Chris Fey | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living
The United States can no longer afford a system where 70 percent of deaths and nearly 80 percent of health care costs stem from the same preventable chronic conditions.
Matthew Palevsky | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
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AP | CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Get ready to hear a lot of huge numbers Tuesday: The Obama administration is expected to boost its estimate of the federal deficit ...
Dean Baker | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
The CBO will release a new set of economic projections for the next decade that are likely to show a cumulative deficit that is $2 trillion higher than the deficit projected in January.
James S. Marks | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics
We are measuring each health reform and long term outcomes by a monolithic yardstick -- 10-year CBO scoring -- without ever questioning whether the yardstick measures what really matters to us as a people.
Reuters | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives pounced on a congressional budget analysis to bolster their plan for a government-run health insurance ...
The New York Times | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
On the agenda is the revamping of the American health care system, possibly the most complex legislation in modern history. But on the table, in a con...
MSNBC | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
"Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag accused Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf of 'overstepping' in a Web post Sat...
Politico | CHRIS FRATES | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics
For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan to...
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
Obama said in July that 14,000 Americans a day are losing health care insurance coverage. So during the time our elected officials want to vacation, 434,000 more Americans will lose coverage.
The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama's health-care plan is in jeopardy because of serious concerns that costs will spin out of control. As much as anyone, it's Whit...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Not only do the various plans now being considered fail to "bend the curve" of health care spending downward, every one of the plans would send the curve still higher.
Saul Segan | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Seven months hardly constitutes a reasonable interval by which decades of errors in oversight, carelessness, and greed, can be neutralized by the Obama administration.
Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
We are either going to get no health care reform or watered-down health care legislation that acts as a bandage, helping some people but ignoring the larger problem creating the pain.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Testimony from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf that preliminary versions of health care legislation lack effective cost-contain...
The Hill | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
A Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) report on healthcare was a "devastating blow" to the bill's prospects, a key centrist Democrat argued Friday. ...
Stanton Peele | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
The following five developments made clear that America is not prepared for what it must do in regard to health care reform.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Home
This week brought us Rahm Emanuel floating the forget-the-public-option balloon. It landed with a thud -- and President Obama had to walk back his chief of staff's statement all the way from Russia (Sarah Palin could see the walk-back from her porch). We also saw Harry Reid telling health care roadblock Max Baucus to stop chasing GOP votes on health care -- and Baucus, whose office has been a breeding ground for health care industry lobbyists, ignoring him. The Democrats' handling of the health care battle continues to confound. Elsewhere, 11-year-old Paris Michael Jackson delivered the quote of the week when she stepped to the memorial mic and declared: "Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just wanted to say I love him so much."
The New Republic's The Treatment | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics
According to a pair of Capitol Hill sources, preliminary estimates from the Congressional Budget Office suggest that a strong public option--the kind ...
AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics