Word: bille
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...Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will begin hearings on Tuesday on the climate change and energy bill introduced last month by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass), who arrived in Boston with the President aboard Air Force One, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif...
...meaning of terms like “rationing” and “end-of-life counseling.” I could write you a list of countries that have a single-payer health-care system or drop a casual reference to the “Baucus bill...
...cannot deny that politics has become too complex for the non-specialist. The difference between a successful and an unsuccessful health-care reform bill may lie in a few paragraphs buried deep in a thousand-page text, paragraphs that even an intelligent, motivated, and honest citizen might miss or misunderstand. It has gotten to the point that even politicians cannot be expected to read the bills that come before them, so that they farm the work out to aides and advisors who have more time and a greater inclination to develop an informed opinion...
...regarding any issue. While some scholars make a career out of studying the details of a particular policy area, the most influential public intellectuals are those that take the broadest view. The same columnists currently writing about health care in The New York Times were writing about the stimulus bill last winter and will continue to write about whatever next occupies the national consciousness...
Robert J. Blendon, a professor of health policy and political analysis at the School of Public Health who was a co-author of the study, said he and his colleagues found little evidence to support the claim that the bill has limited access to health care and lowered its quality—a popular criticism among many of the law’s opponents...