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...making a bigger effort to communicate with us [than Palin did], particularly right now." - Alaska House Speaker Mike Chenault. (Anchorage Daily News, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sean Parnell: Alaska's New Governor | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...About two-thirds of nonelderly Americans get health insurance through their employers, and despite the fact that the tax break is regressive - the more expensive your employer's health-insurance plan, the bigger the break you get - very few of them would look kindly on reforming the system. With that in mind, some lawmakers have proposed capping the amount of employer-sponsored health insurance that could be provided tax-free - leaving only workers with pricey, so-called Cadillac health plans worth north of $25,000 a year subject to new taxation. But even this isn't exactly guaranteed to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxing Pricey Insurance: No Health-Care Cure | 7/28/2009 | See Source »

...like Oprah Winfrey, Bon Jovi and Brad Pitt, plus an élite cadre of Wall Street and Silicon Valley scions, Booker's self-sacrificial tale is heroic. To his critics, Booker is still a publicity-loving political opportunist, a permanent outsider using the citizens of Newark to jump-start bigger things for his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cory Booker Likes Being Mayor of Newark | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...want [Hafler] to be able to build a great program, I want him to recruit a lot of faculty, and I want our neurology program to get much bigger than it is now," Alpern said. "I actually want someone with his great taste to come here and recruit a lot of clinical and research faculty, and so we put up a package that would allow him to do both...

Author: By June Q. Wu and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Yale Poaches Harvard Prof in Medical School Expansion | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...need the support of all 8 million supporters on his e-mail lists and many, many more. The White House is clearly trying to change the terms of the debate; during the press conference, Obama borrowed an argument from Steven Pearlstein of the Washington Post by warning that the bigger risk lies in not passing health-care reform, since the status quo promises only higher costs and less coverage. Over the weekend, Obama also tried to counter the notion that reform will add costs to small-business employers, a frequent attack of the current plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Biggest Hurdles to Health-Care Reform | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

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