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...Paulson says that he acted as expediently as he could. The financial and credit system probably was days from collapse when he received the first $350 billion of TARP funds. Paulson would probably agree that his actions were not based on careful plans, but the time for careful plans had passed...
...insurance is that you can't predict the future. If an elderly woman has diabetes and her husband needs heart surgery, then dies anyway, leaving her impoverished, Medicare and Social Security should be there for her. And if it all costs far more than she ever put into the system, that...
...health care or to avoid plunging into poverty. She wasn't lying or cheating--she might have been legitimately worried--but her worries turned out to be unnecessary. And society, having kept its promise to her, should get at least part of that money back. Oh, yes, designing a system to achieve this would be a nightmare--maybe impossible. The incentive for old folks to squander their savings would be enormous. Maybe it can't work. But the point is worth keeping in mind as we enter President Obama's "new age" of "hard choices...
...least April 2007. Cutler, who specializes in health care and public economics, is a vocal proponent of increasing America’s health care spending, arguing in his most recent book, “Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System,” that such spending has been worthwhile despite its high costs. He had planned to be on sabbatical for the spring semester prior to his appointment, and said he plans to return to Harvard after his time in Washington. “Sometimes you believe in something...
...world’s leading experts on the financial system,” Lamont said. “I can’t think of a better person to be in Washington right now—other than [Lawrence H.] Summers...