Word: optioning
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...open secret for years. Indeed, both the Eastern Shan and Wa are also believed to have financed themselves through such shady means; the latter's southern commander, Wei Hsueh-kang, has been singled out by the U.S. Treasury Department as a major drug trafficker. Indeed, one battle-avoiding option for the junta is luring corrupt ethnic elders to its side. "Divide-and-conquer tactics are the SPDC's best friend," says KIA Brigadier General Gun Maw. (Read about the 2007 crackdown in Burma...
...Over the summer, public opinion on the public option only seemed to shift often and abruptly. Much of this confusion had to do with the wording of pollsters’ questions: When asked if they supported the inclusion of a “public option” in the health-care bill, respondents answered affirmatively about 65 percent of the time and negatively about 35 percent of the time. When asked if they supported the inclusion of a “government option” in the health-care bill (with the same details listed), these numbers would then change...
...hesitant to support the expansion of Washington’s influence in the market. In many ways, the invisible hand is strangling the Democratic Party. A big part of the president’s speech aimed to convince insured Democrats with market-friendly perspectives that a government-run public option could work, while also convincing progressives that although the letter of reform may change, the spirit remains the same...
...foreseeable future, Blue Dog Democrats—not to mention party-line Republicans—continue to falsely claim that a public option is against the will of the people. It is an unfortunate reality with which the president and the rest of the Democratic Party will have to deal...
...There are many options for compromise on the table—including Republican Senator Olympia Snowe’s widely touted “triggered public option” plan. Overall, it remains likely a bill will pass. If we are to take the president at his word, we will ultimately choose whichever plan achieves the prize: passing a bill that covers everyone and begins to lower costs—even if the public option must be swapped for votes...