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...Another way a public plan could drive down costs is by forcing private insurers to be more transparent. "The public plan will teach the country what this stuff actually costs," says Len Nichols, director of the New America Foundation's Health Policy Program and co-author of a March 2009 proposal for a public-plan option. Nichols says a public plan could provide a "credible benchmark" that consumers could use to measure whether private insurers are offering fair rates...
...franchise must stir conflicting emotions in Sheen. Six years ago, when he made the first film, he was a supporting player to his then girlfriend Kate Beckinsale's Selene, a vision in pancake face, blood red lipstick and black leather. Then she went off with the movie's director, Len Wiseman - ouch. Since then, Beckinsale has played Ava Gardner in The Aviator and, more or less, Judith Miller in Nothing But the Truth; Wiseman graduated to directing the very snappy fourth Die Hard movie; and Sheen became an upmarket character star. Now he's top-billed as Lucian the hybrid...
...economist wants this aid approved yesterday because just as public dollars can have a big multiplier effect, public cuts that are imminent in New York, California and Florida can have a negative multiplier effect. "You can't let the safety net unravel just when people need it most," says Len Burman, director of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. "A lot of states have been terribly irresponsible, but this probably isn't the best time to teach them a lesson...
...Blagojevich is prosecuted, he’ll be the fourth Illinois governor to face corruption charges, and maybe even the fourth to serve a prison sentence as a result. This proud legacy can be traced back at least to that great patriarch of corruption, Gov. Len Small (1921-29), who was let off on charges of embezzling $600,000 from the state after he offered his jurors cushy state jobs. Such a grand inheritance of corruption can scarcely be rivaled in any other state, from sea to shining sea, and it’s important not to overlook the good...
...then they are just working off sound bites, not actual numbers. The McCain campaign's hypothetical spending cuts would only be achievable, they say, by a President who did not have to negotiate with a historically big-spending Congress. "King McCain might be able to do it," says Len Burman, another author of the Tax Policy Center report. "But President McCain will have a very difficult time...