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...money raised by those investments was funneled in the mortgage market. That gave lenders the ability to make more loans, allowing more people to buy houses and push up real estate prices. Many of those loans, it turns out, were made to people who couldn't afford to pay. What happened next - real estate bust, foreclosures and Wall Street mayhem - is well known...
What It Says: While you won’t be able to get into buildings without begging an upperclassman, and you'll probably be locked out of your room until your host stumbles in drunk at four in the morning, at least you won’t have to pay for food at the ‘berg...
...wonder that the sweetheart deal Senator Ben Nelson got for his home state of Nebraska as part of the Senate health reform bill has caused such consternation among his colleagues. In exchange for his vote, say critics, Nelson was promised that the Federal Government would pay 100% of the cost of expanding the Medicaid program in Nebraska. The 49 other states, by contrast, would have full federal funding for a few years but would eventually have to pick up part of the tab. As soon as word of the special treatment broke, the deal became known as the "Cornhusker Kickback...
...cost of legislation, which is already close to the $900 billion limit set by President Obama. Then again, House and Senate leaders are currently negotiating all sorts of adjustments for a merged bill, and any new Medicaid costs could be part of that calculation. "Having the Federal Government pay the complete thing is not that big a deal," says John Holahan, an economist who has studied the Medicaid expansion extensively and who is also director of the Health Policy Research Center at the nonprofit, nonpartisan Urban Institute...
...Federal Government currently pays about 57% of all Medicaid costs, with the rest shouldered by states. But under reform, the Federal Government would eventually pay 82% to 95% of Medicaid costs for the 15 million people who would become newly eligible. At that point, the result would be a huge public insurance program funded mostly by the Federal Government. By contrast, the public option - which exists in the current House bill but seems headed for a quiet death because of moderate Democrats' concerns that it would lead to socialized medicine - would have included no federal funding of benefits. Some health...