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...example of the type of “savings” the bill offers is the “Doc Fix” provision. Under current law, Medicare payments to doctors are scheduled to be cut by 21 percent in April, and then continue to decline for the rest of the decade. While this cut is typically reversed by Congress before it occurs, the oft-quoted CBO analysis of the Democratic health care legislation assumes that the cut will proceed and adds the savings to the reform’s tally. Without...
...bill’s central tenet is a law preventing insurers from denying coverage to individuals with pre-existing conditions. To do this, Democrats mandate that all Americans buy insurance in order to prevent people from gaming the system. This mandate in turn requires government subsidies for those who cannot afford coverage. These three new regulations amount to what Paul Krugman calls the “three-legged stool” of reform...
...presence of the supernatural: Hermes, the Greek messenger of the gods, watches and narrates as the awfully-named Godleys eat, drink and live their mortal lives. Other gods also enjoy the human spectacle and occasionally intervene. As Adam lies immobile on his bed, Zeus seduces his daughter-in-law, Helena, disguised as her husband, also named Adam; the trickster god Pan meddles with the household as well...
...There is no question that the Democrats have handed the opposition party a compelling rationale to fire up its base for the upcoming election. But the bloodiest battle will be fought to define the new health care law for both swing and independent voters (even as disenchanted liberals are still being coaxed back to their stations). (See TIME's video "Uninsured Again...
...like familiar ground, since generations of conservatives have complained that the so-called mainstream media have been biased against them. Well, get ready, Republicans, for déjà vu all over again. The coverage through November likely will highlight the most extreme attacks on the President and his law and spotlight stories of real Americans whose lives have been improved by access to health care (pushed, no doubt, by Democrats from every competitive congressional district and state). The louder Republicans yell, the more they will be characterized and caricatured as sore losers infuriated by the first major delivery...