by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt While Rome Burns, Nero Fiddles – Health Care Edition While the House and Senate were trying to overhaul the entire health care system, key Medicare regulations were left in limbo. Those provisions are still in limbo. Medicare physician reimbursement based on Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) have been controversial and generally […]
by Dale Coberlyan Op-Ed BRUCE KRASTING ASKS FOR MORE A few weeks ago Bruce Krasting published on his own blog an essay claiming that Social Security was going broke and that it would cause the economy to collapse, and the only possible remedy was to means test Social Security. I replied on Angry Bear that […]
by Linda Beale Obama’s FY 2011 Budget The Obama Administration released its FY2011 Budget proposals today which assumes a substantial amount of tax cuts (making the 2001-2003 Bush cuts permanent for most Americans costs about $3.75 trillion over ten years) and some tax increases to cover important programs (about $1.9 trillion), resulting in a substantial […]
Ads were in the works, but their appearance today caught me not preparing readers for this event except for Bears. Sorry. Angry Bear is trying out the notion of a small revenue stream to help take care of expenses instead of our personal income. The time involved to keep the blog running involves much time, […]
by cactus Corporate Inefficiency When the Costs Are Imposed on Third Parties. Long time readers may recall that I had some issues with Norton Anti-Virus, which led to my uninstalling the thing from every computer I own (plus my mom’s computer) back in 2007. Planned obsolescence in the computer world being what it is, I […]
Henry Giroux says of Howard Zinn: Howard was one of the few intellectuals I have met who took education seriously. He embraced it as both necessary for creating an informed citizenry and because he rightly felt it was crucial to the very nature of politics and human dignity. He was a deeply committed scholar and […]
Martin Ford offers further thoughts on where we are headed. An Alternate Theory about the Root Cause of the Current Economic Crisis Bernanke’s speech in Atlanta a month ago focused a lot of attention on the debate about the forces that led to the current crisis. Was it primarily Greenspan’s low interest rates, or as […]
The Washington Post carries the full transcript. Worth the read and even watching. Update: Here is the C-SPAN coverage.(h/t MG) This is very good. President Speaks at GOP Retreat President Obama – Full Q&A with Republican Members of Congress
by Maggie Maharcrossposted with Health Beat Who Voted for Brown in Massachusetts — and Why? The media continues to report that the Massachusetts vote was a referendum on health care reform — and that this has the White House worried. If so, the White House is wrong. Take a look at polling conducted by Hart […]