Word: dealing
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...have access to credit in a very strict proportion to their income - not a future projection of their income, which is what we've been doing. It's been, "I'm now making $50,000, but in a few years I'll be making $150,000, so no big deal, let's go buy an expensive house now." This whole business of giving more credit than a person can service is not only foolish, but if you tried to do that 200 or 300 years ago, it would have been considered immoral as well. We don't think that...
...other side from House Democrats, who are trying to subject the drug industry to the kind of direct price negotiations with Medicare that Emanuel once championed. The White House also agreed, sources say, not to get behind a provision in the House bill that would eliminate a good deal the industry got from another provision in the Medicare prescription-drug program. The law shifted 6 million eligible beneficiaries from Medicaid - which pays lower prices for drugs - to the Medicare drug plan. In just the first two years of the program, that shift of beneficiaries from one program to the other...
...House Democrats are none too pleased by the White House pact with the drug industry. "We were never part of that deal. We are not bound by that deal," says Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, one of three panels that wrote the House bill. "It was not particularly a deal I would have made...
...Read "Can Obama Close the Deal on Health Care...
...military the opportunity to go in for the kill. But another U.S. official worries that the Pakistanis will hold off and seek another truce. "There will be some [in the military] who say, 'Enemy No. 1 is dead, let's see if the next guy will do a deal,' " says the official. "And if I'm Mehsud's successor, I'll be happy to do a deal, to buy time and space to set my house in order...