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TIME: I thought I'd talk to you a little bit about the whole degree to which this is really a test of leadership. The fact is that no President has been able to pull off anything on this order of magnitude in 44 years [since Congress passed Medicare and Medicaid]. President Obama: Well, as you point out, the last time we did something of this magnitude was 1965. And the circumstances in some cases were similar - in some cases were profoundly different. Obviously LBJ had just won a landslide re-election and had huge majorities in the Senate...
...society ... We've put forward what I continue to believe is the most sensible way of financing [a portion of covering the cost of the uninsured], and that is simply to lower the deductions, the itemized deductions that wealthy individuals can take. That would have covered it ... The fact that that has not yet been adopted I don't think is reflective of me not giving clarity to Congress. It has to do with the fact that members of Congress are skittish about anything involving taxes, even though these are taxes that would not be imposed on anybody making less...
...health-care system across the board to hit the efficiency levels of a Kaiser Permanente or a Cleveland Clinic or a Mayo or a Geisinger, we actually would have solved our problems. Now, even in those systems, there's still going to be hard choices, right? But the fact of the matter is, ultimately, my grandmother was able to get that hip replacement even though she had terminal cancer and even though the operation was full of risks. And so from a purely economic point of view, there would be some who argued that wasn't a good...
None of this means everyone's happy. In fact, one of the ways in which Boise reflects a return to local logic is the city's rising foreclosure rate. It hasn't been tricky subprime and Alt-A loans tripping up the folks in Idaho; it's been the flailing economy. At 10.1%, Boise's unemployment rate is above the national average and nearly twice what it was this time last year. As big employers such as HP and semiconductor maker Micron lay off thousands of workers, job losses cascade through other industries and small businesses. If people...
...fact that settlers live in compounds protected by machine-gun-toting guards pinpoints another tragedy. Israel needs peace and security. It will get neither while it confiscates land, restricts travel and otherwise degrades Palestinians. John Bertsche, NORMAL...