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16 hours ago ago from Robert\'s Stochastic thoughts
Nate Silver vs Jon Walker Jon Walker argues that the kill the bill left believes, with reason, that if the current Senate Health Care bill is killed, then there is a good chance that a better bill is passed via the budget reconciliation process. Nate Silver has a long excellent counter argument. I want to add two things. First Walker must assume that there are at least 50 senators who would support the better bill. Each of them could ...
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18 hours ago ago from Protect Your Wealth
The fiscal situation at the state level is no promising . However, it seems that the state legislatures are more concerned about the recklessness than federal lawmakers. Individual states cannot print money. They are also subject to 'normal' credit ratings. Funds for state and municipal bonds can dry up if credit risks increase to extraordinary levels. The bond vigilantes are no more. The federal government remains quite ...
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2 hours ago ago from Say Anything
Kent Conrad says there isn't any room for the Senate to compromise with the House on the health care bill. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said Sunday that it’s the Senate bill, or nothing at all, when it comes to health care reform. It is very clear that the final bill that passed in the United States Senate is going have to be very close to the bill that is being negotiated here, the North Dakota Democrat said on “Fox ...
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23 hours ago ago from The Button Valley Bugle
Just a quick reminder. The State Land Board meets tomorrow at 9am in Helena to decide the fate of the state portion of the Otter Creek coal tracts. If you don't have anything in particular to do, the meeting will be broadcast live on the internet . The fate of Otter Creek is late on the agenda, but agendas change. A big tip of the Bugle fedora to 22 Democratic state lawmakers who wrote to the Land Board to refute a letter last week by 14 ...
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6 hours ago ago from OSPRI BLOG
A plan to close a $220 million deficit in the state budget by cutting $125 million in aid to towns and cities has not gone over so well with local leaders. Apparently the notion that they could accommodate this lost revenue by cutting costs has not crossed the minds of some mayors and managers, as Gov. Carcieri pointed out in a press release today: It is no shock that the Governor's supplemental budget, the corrective action plan to ...
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Harold Pollack: Some unsolicited advice for Howard Dean, and for President Obama, too
15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I've been spending much time recently with primary care physicians across Chicago. Interspersed with the work, I hear many stories about the difficulties experienced by urban low-income patients. There was the man with diabetes who was uninsured until age 65. Thanks to Medicare, he now gets excellent care. That won't restore the sight he lost to diabetic retinopathy a few years ago. There were the uninsured women whose metastatic breast ...
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