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...earlier version of the Mar. 26 post "The Most Important Meal Of The Day: FlyBy Does Brain Break" incorrectly stated that Quincy's brain break offered Lucky Charms. In fact, the cereal's name is Marshmallow Mateys...
...study represents “an interesting example in which you’re doing applied research and then you make some interesting basic fact-findings also,” Savage said...
...fade, despite the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office’s conclusion that it is fiscally responsible. In advancing their allegation that Democrats will add to the deficit, Republicans insist that the bill will cost Americans far more than the CBO report suggests. This claim is largely unfounded; in fact, the CBO regularly errs toward conservative estimates about cost savings because it fails to account for savings from intangible factors, such as better technology and systemic improvement. Considering these additional components, Harvard economist David Cutler estimates that the law may save hundreds of billions of dollars more than the CBO predicted...
...earlier version of the Mar. 26 staff editorial "How 'Bout Them Dems" stated that Harvard economist David Cutler estimates that the law may save hundreds of millions of dollars more than the CBO predicted over the next decade. In fact, Cutler predicted it will save hundreds of billions of dollars...
...fact not surprising to anyone who has followed the healthcare reform battle in the last year is that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, now signed into law, managed to pass through both chambers of Congress without a single Republican voting “Yea.” In comparison, another landmark bill passed 75 years ago, the Social Security Act of 1935, passed the House 372 votes to 33, with 81 Republicans voting in support. Thirty years later in 1965, the Medicaid and Medicare amendments were added with a House margin of 307-to-116, with 70 Republicans...