Early this morning [read: in the middle of the night] the Senate voted to move forward with the Health Care Reform Bill. Senate Democrats are hoping to pass the bill by New Years Eve, and the 60 to 40 vote…
Earlier today two senators, Democrat Ben Nelson and Republican Orrin Hatch, filed an amendment to H.R. 3590, the purpose of which is to prohibit the use of federal funds for abortions. There are the usual caveats – if the mother’s…
Paul Krugman made a sterling point in his column yesterday. In response to the news that Chicago had been passed over for the 2016 Olympics, he noted that
“Cheers erupted” at the headquarters of the conservative Weekly Standard, according to…
Hello loyal Politic.Ology reader. Your fearless Ologist has returned from two weeks of traveling (a trip that, unless I win the lottery, will likely be the last two week vacation of my life) just in time for President Obama and…
Dennis Kucinich is known by many young people as the dude with the really hot wife with a smokin’ tongue ring. But, he’s also known to his constituents as a man with ideas, like them or not. And, there’s new…
There are stories about real or imagined dissension within the Democrats ranks–threatening to tear asunder the party’s liberal and centrist wings–all over the blogosphere today, all relating in one way or another to the debate over health care reform
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Health care spending, which already accounts for a fifth of our GDP, is rising precipitously even as the ranks of the uninsured swell. The whole of Washington has been absorbed for more weeks and months with the task of crafting…
A recent House proposal for healthcare reform laid out a plan to insure 97% of uninsured Americans. The plan is projected to cost $1 billion over 10 years, paid for by a progressive tax on incomes over $350,000.It ranges from…
Would anyone know? Could anyone do anything about it?
How do you tell a Nobel laureate that he might just belong shitting in the corner of a padded room?
Check out this column.
“The bad employment report for June made…
Two great bits of political burnage today from the GOP–one aimed at the President, and another at themselves.
First, President Obama. After calling candidate John McCain’s proposal to tax employer-based health benefits “so radical, so out of touch with what…
