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...paid for by the Senate campaign of Democrat Martha Coakley, but its regular-guy-against-the-rich strategy was developed months ago by top White House aides, who know their party faces a perilous election this fall. This same strategy was much in evidence at the White House Thursday, when President Obama proposed a new tax on large banks to compensate for losses suffered by taxpayers in bailouts of the financial industry that began in the final months of the Bush Administration. "We want our money back, and we are going to get it," the President said, using unusually informal...
...leader Harry Reid, Nelson asked that special treatment for Nebraska be excluded from the final legislation. In the same letter, however, Nelson repeated something he has been saying since word of his special deal got around - that newly eligible Medicaid enrollees in all states should be fully and permanently paid for by the Federal Government. At first, this seemed like a crude and overly expensive solution, but as negotiations continue between House and Senate leaders over final legislative language, the idea of lessening the Medicaid burden for states is gaining traction. "Senator Nelson's deal has been a blessing...
...Services (HHS), administration of Medicaid has historically fallen to states. This has given governors and legislatures the flexibility to structure their Medicaid programs based on their populations and budgets. States now determine who qualifies for Medicaid, what's covered by the program and how much doctors and hospitals get paid for taking care of Medicaid patients. (See TIME's health and medicine covers...
...Blankfein even seemed to show some support for a consumer financial-product regulator, saying he thought there should be more attention paid to how financial markets interact with the retail market. But when it comes to more restrictions on the way large Wall Street firms like Goldman do business, Blankfein said there were already too many constraints. He said that since his firm began to be regulated by the Federal Reserve and not the Securities and Exchange Commission - a switch that happened when Goldman became a bank-holding company in late 2008 - the oversight of his firm had increased...
During the fiscal year ending in 2008, University President Drew G. Faust took home $693,739—a salary that makes Faust the 56th highest paid university president in the country...