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...obviously under severe economic pressure and are clearly trying to reduce the amount of time their personnel spend on the phone with unhappy customers. Still, in an era of burgeoning complaints about service, four-hour waits on the tarmac and renewed pressure in Congress for a passenger's bill of rights, this seems counterproductive, to say the least...
...Bush invested his capital in privatizing Social Security, and the stock tanked. Barack Obama is investing in health-care reform. We are at the point of the legislative process where all seems hopeless, but Obama should be heartened by the fact that most of his Republican adversaries oppose the bill for crass political rather than ideological reasons. They assume that if it passes, his investment of political capital will result in higher poll numbers - which means they assume the public will like the changes he is proposing. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Health-Care Debate Turns Angry...
...premiums from the insurance companies, people will love that too. Making health care available to everyone, even if some people - young, healthy people - who are not buying in now are told they have to join up, will also be well received. The odds are better than even that a bill containing those provisions will pass in Congress this fall...
...President have done? Well, there's a path between the 1,300-page Clinton health-care plan and the 1,000-page Henry Waxman plan that will be voted on in the House. The President could have laid out a set of principles and said, "I will veto any bill that doesn't contain the following ..." (Indeed, he still could do so.) They should be clear, simple, popular and achievable. My list would include insurance reform, health-care exchanges, near universal coverage and tort reform. (Obama's position on tort reform is another abdication of responsibility: he says...
...much power in the hands of Uribe, turning him into a right-wing version of Hugo Chávez. Others, like Senator German Vargas Lleras who is the grandson of a former president, want a crack at the top job themselves. That's why the original referendum bill in Congress would have allowed Uribe to run in 2014 but not 2010. It took months of arm-twisting by the goverment to change the language in the final version, and even at that the measure barely squeaked through: the government coalition needed 84 votes Tuesday night...