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...points out so much that is wrong with our health-care system. The best health-care-reform option of all: a single-payer, universal plan that provides comprehensive coverage, including dental, eye, mental health, etc., to all citizens. The best part of all is that it is already in Congress: HR 676. The opponents of HR 676 are beholden to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. It is time for a change. Anita Simons, LA JOLLA, CALIF...
...forgotten what he actually did or did not do for General Motors, America will remember CEO Rick Wagoner for his injudicious use of executive privilege. Wagoner and his colleagues at Ford and Chrysler gained notoriety for flying in three separate private jets to Washington, in order to ask Congress for a multi-billion dollar bailout. Four months later, Wagoner has resigned as a condition of this bailout and been replaced by Fritz Henderson, GM’s current president and chief operating officer...
...Second, mathematical explanations of politics conceal its larger significance. For example, take Charles Cameron’s piece on veto bargaining. You could learn about the give-and-take between the president and Congress by scrutinizing Bill Clinton’s schemes against Newt Gingrich. But Cameron reduces these highly personal exchanges to utility maximization problems. “The utility of any point in the policy space to either the president or Congress can be read from their utility functions,” he drones. His observations are nearly impossible to use: How do you find Barack Obama?...
...even a few of the Gates cuts are serious, a pork-crazed Congress will go nuts," says Winslow Wheeler, who spent 30 years working on defense issues for members of both parties on Capitol Hill. "The big challenge will then become making any serious decisions stick...
...Gates' aides explain that his budget is being presented as a single holistic proposal - rather than being leaked in dribs and drabs, which could build resistance to specific changes - and therefore it stands a better chance of winning approval from Congress. But though Gates urged lawmakers to rise above "parochial" concerns in responding to the budget, resistance will be fierce on the Hill, where some view any retooling of the military budget as a recipe for a weaker America and others simply want to keep defense-contractor jobs in their districts - a combination that could yet trump a highly-regarded...