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...Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad of North Dakota noted in an interview that passing health-care reform under the reconciliation rule poses as many problems as it solves for the Democrats and for health reform. Any bill that passes under the reconciliation process must be deemed by the Congressional Budget Office to pay for itself in the next six years. (By comparison, a bill that passes under regular procedures has an 11-year window.) As a result of that tighter fiscal constraint, Conrad said, any bill that passes under reconciliation would likely provide "dramatically less health reform...
...before any bill can get to the Senate floor, lawmakers have to figure out a way to pay for it, and their current proposal is running up against stiff resistance from Democrats. Polls show that voters are resistant to any means of paying for health reform - and especially to the idea of taxing benefits they are accustomed to getting tax-free. In June, for instance, a Washington Post/ABC poll asked respondents whether they would support taxing employer-provided benefits, even if it were limited to relatively generous plans worth $17,000 a year or more; 7 out of 10 said...
...next few weeks will bring some hard decisions for everyone involved in the health-reform debate. But the bottom line will come down to one crucial question: Is it riskier to push for health reform - or to be seen as having stopped...
...Still, that legacy could come undone if the pressing domestic problems of infrastructure, poverty, bureaucratic reform and corruption are not dealt with promptly. While most agree the latest elections further solidify democratization, others warn that the country's authoritarian past cannot be forgotten. "We are going back to a one-man show," says Nico Harjanto, a political researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. "This is more dynasty politics." Given that one of SBY's sons, at 28, was the largest vote-getter in the Parliamentary elections without ever having given an interview that might...
...networks, the protesters seemed undeterred. With many in the crowd making peace signs with their hands and chanting "Allahu akbar" (God is great), one woman in her 50s standing on Kargar Street motioned to them and said proudly, "This is Iran." (Read "Beaten Back, Iran's Opposition Looks to Reform from Within...