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...three health-related House committees that hasn't yet produced a bill has suspended its drafting sessions, while committee chairman Henry Waxman tries to work out his differences with a rebellious group of fiscally conservative Democrats known as the Blue Dogs. And in the Senate, Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus remains sequestered behind closed doors with a small group that includes Republicans; no one expects to see a bill out of their efforts until next week at the earliest. (Read the transcript...
...century ago, Max Weber, the great German sociologist, famously divided sources of authority into three types: the traditional, the charismatic and the legal-bureaucratic. Americans like their leaders to be charismatic--a word derived from the Greek that means a person has a gift of grace. Political parties routinely look for presidential candidates with charisma (Barack Obama, naturally) and regret it when they don't find one (think Michael Dukakis). (See TIME's Barack Obama covers...
...House health-reform draft is a provision that could in effect ban further construction of doctor-owned, for-profit specialty hospitals and prohibit existing ones from expanding. (The provision would prevent new facilities from receiving any Medicare payments and would limit changes to current facilities.) Senators Charles Grassley and Max Baucus, who lead the body's powerful Finance Committee, have been vocal critics of the doctor-owned specialty-hospital model and the industry expects similar language to be included in any upcoming Senate health-reform bill as well. Doctor-owned specialty hospitals would "wither on the vine," says Molly Sandvig...
...diluting the bill too much - say, by making the public plan a fallback, to be created only if private insurers fail to bring down health-care costs, as some have suggested - risks allowing liberal Democratic support to slip away. Meanwhile, Democratic Senators are balking at Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus' proposal to pay for much of the health overhaul by imposing taxes for the first time ever on some of the health benefits that workers get from their employers. But absent those new taxes, Democrats may have to settle for a smaller, less costly bill. (See the top 10 medical...
...With such a dramatic cost advantage to making cars in Mexico, it's no surprise that GM plans to max out production in that country as it struggles to shake off Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and return to profitability...