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...just the end of the stimulus that makes 2011 a tough year to call. It will also be the year that all the Bush tax cuts expire. And Harris thinks that if a health-care overall gets passed, that could have significant unforeseen effects on the economy as well. S&P's chief economist, David Wyss, says he thinks most economists are tackling the tricky problem of predicting what will happen in 2011 by doing what they always do: predict the economy will do about average. The problem is that what economists have come to believe is average growth...
Drawing on his experience while working closely with President George W. Bush, Wilder addressed a wide range of U.S.-China policy issues including North Korea, Iran, Tibet, the economy, Chinese nationalism, and the military...
Malpractice reform has always been a resoundingly popular idea with Republicans, which made the topic a perfect one for President Barack Obama to talk about in his recent address to Congress. George W. Bush had a "good idea" on malpractice reform, the President said--one he intended to pursue as part of a health-care overhaul. Cue a rare moment of bipartisan applause...
Obama may have evoked Bush to encourage bipartisan good-fellowship, but he did not actually learn about this alternative from his predecessor. In 2006, Obama co-wrote a column with Hillary Clinton for the New England Journal of Medicine in which the two, then Senators, called for grant money to support programs that encourage doctors to admit errors up front and compensate patients early and out of court. Their reasoning: open communication about mistakes helps prevent them from happening again, saving money--and lives...
...cost. And it was, through a bailout that placed trillions of taxpayer dollars at risk. It was expensive, messy and unfair. It struck many people as un-American. But it worked. "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system" is how President George W. Bush described it last December...