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...congressional bean counters, and it has so many unquantifiable parts that even some of its proponents admit that hard numbers are difficult to nail down. "It's impossible to figure out what the bottom-line impact is," says a Finance-panel aide. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
Though the industry's alarmism failed to derail the Baucus bill, the struggle over health-care reform is far from over. The conversations between DeParle and Ignagni laid bare what is really at stake for the insurers as health-care reform has gained momentum. For example, both DeParle and the Senate aide claim Ignagni voiced serious concerns during the Oct. 6 call over a provision in the Senate Finance bill that would raise $600 million in new taxes on the salaries of high-paid insurance executives. DeParle also said that in a White House meeting the next day, Ignagni repeatedly...
Prominent social activist Geoffrey Canada passionately denounced the barriers to education reform as he delivered the Phillips Brooks House Association’s annual Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture in Memorial Church last Friday...
...predecessor, Thomas D. Fowler-Finn, and the grace and consensus-building style of Fowler-Finn’s predecessor, Bobbie D’Alessandro. As Young makes controversial staffing and curricular decisions, as he surely will, it will be important that committee members are allies in promoting reform and not agents of obstruction...
...think that’s OK. Life is too short for us all to spend our time becoming experts on health-care reform. In fact, it looks like democracy might survive our tremendous dimwittedness. A famous result in political science shows that, under certain conditions, even widespread political ignorance in the populace has zero effect on the resulting policy, as long as the ignorance—to glibly oversimplify—is evenly distributed on both sides of an issue. After all, if the same number of people exist who are wrongly convinced that healthcare reform is dangerous...