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Cenk Vs. Caller Defending Sarah Palin!
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The Baucus Bill’s Inevitable Consequences
“The Finance Committee chairman’s bill is a tangled web of federally-dictated insurance regulations, which would control every aspect of health insurance from covered benefits to permissible premiums. The bill would centralize the power of medical decisions with politicians and bureaucrats, not patients and doctors. And it would result in higher health insurance premiums, less consumer choice, and, ultimately, the rationing of health care.” — US Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl speaking on …
Menendez at Health Insurance Reform markup in Finance Committee
Senator Menendez speaks at Health Insurance Reform markup in Finance Committee
Obama: “momentum” for health care reform
The historic movement to bring real, meaningful health insurance reform to the American people gathered momentum this week as we approach the final days of this debate. Having worked on this issue for the better part of a year, the Senate Finance Committee is finishing deliberations on their version of a health insurance reform bill that will soon be merged with other reform bills produced by other Congressional committees. After evaluating the Finance Committees bill, the Congressional …
Reid, Baucus, Dodd Discuss the Urgency for Health Insurance Reform
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus and Senator Chris Dodd of the Senate HELP Committee gave an update on their discussions underway regarding a merged health insurance reform proposal.
Health Insurance Reform: Highlighting the Need for Change
With the Finance Committee voting soon their health insurance reform proposal, ten freshmen Democratic Senators took to the floor Thursday to address the need for change. Together, the freshmen described the dramatic rise in health care costs and the urgent need to deliver real change to our health care system. “This is not just a moral imperative on its own right. It will help us achieve the cost savings that our health system so desperately needs,” said Sen. Roland Burris….
Healthcare, Consumer Finance and Immigration Reform….NOT!
The Stench of Truth 174 Three more promises of reform which will fail to deliver. Healthcare reform that puts off the table single payer, and a public plan is already signalling no real reform of a bloated and broken system. The consumer finance reform effort is similarly flawed with no real details and no notion of what power it will have. The so-called credit card reform bill showed us what kind of reform we could expect in this regard. Immigration reform, is just disguised amnesty. What …
Roles and Responsibilities of Inspectors General in Financial Markets Regulatory Agencies Part 1
3-25-09 OGR Subcommittee on Management, Organization and Procurement
Roles and Responsibilities of Inspectors General in Financial Markets Regulatory Agencies Part 4
3-25-09 OGR Subcommittee on Management, Organization and Procurement
Understanding the Financial Crisis
Yale hosted a panel discussion with Yale Faculty on Understanding the Financial Crisis: The Stimulus, Bailouts and Other Solutions. Panelists included John Geanakoplos (James Tobin Professor of Economics), Jonathan Macey (Deputy Dean of the Yale Law School), William Nordhaus (Sterling Professor of Economics) and Robert Shiller (Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics). The discussion was moderated by Yale University President Richard Levin (Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics)….
