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...health care was omitted [June 8]. Europe does not have for-profit health insurance. The U.S. will never truly reform health care as long as we treat it as a commodity. Here, as they do in the European Union, we should recognize health care as a basic human right. Warren Swanson, REDDING, CALIF...
...politeness fool you," says Elizabeth Warren. The Harvard Law professor and head of the congressional panel monitoring the bank bailout had just finished a hearing in New York City and was nibbling at a dish of pasta with zucchini. "I can't think of anyone I'm afraid of," she adds. "Certainly not someone who may have had a hand in bringing this country to the brink of disaster...
...Warren, 59, is exceedingly polite. She has strong opinions, but she often expresses them in a whisper-soft voice. She tends to say "Does that make sense?" in her Oklahoma drawl right after she finishes answering a question. During the hearing, which was focused on the federal bailout program's effect on corporate and commercial real estate lending, Warren gingerly tapped her gavel from the dais. "The hearing of the Congressional Oversight Panel will now come to order," she said a bit hesitantly. (See three questions about TARP for Warren's panel...
...part of her new job, this well-mannered career academic has to bully some of the world's most powerful men. Shortly after Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act last October, Warren was appointed by Senate Democrats to do one of the most difficult, or perhaps impossible, jobs in Washington: chairing a bipartisan panel tasked with scrutinizing how the Treasury Department - first George W. Bush's, now Barack Obama's - is spending the $700 billion in federal money intended in large part to shore up failing banks. The role has Warren monitoring the decisions of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...
...appointment raises a number of questions, including whether someone like Warren can compel staffers at the Treasury Department to hand over sensitive data - the crux of her job. The bonus scandal at AIG, the former insurance giant that is now a ward of the Federal Government, was a strong indication that some of those responsible for dispensing funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) lost track of the cash. Which raises a more philosophical point: Is it even possible to know where the money is going? And if so, is Warren, a Washington outsider who's still feeling...