…not Baucus. The 3 other plans have more generous subsidies. So, I thought, maybe she supports a bill with more generous subsidies and a different financing mechanism. The alternative which…

…young people to register to vote. I’d say there are quite a few Republicans who wouldn’t mind a public option so much if the alternative is a provision which forces…

…year.” One such bill is the annual alternative minimum tax fix. The other is the annual adjustment to medicare compensation rates. Under current law, medicare compensation scales would be cut…

…assault rifles is because the alternative is worse. The likelihood of getting blown to bits by a suicide bomber in Israel is higher than the likelihood of being shot by…

by Bruce Webb The above was the title to a blog post on TPM whose body read as follows: if 77% of americans want an alternative to paying insurance companies…

…an alternative was desperately needed for small business, which can’t afford the rising cost of health insurance for their employees. In less good news, Snowe is still enthusiastic about the…

…to pass it would be via reconciliation. Huh ? How about this alternative way it can pass. The Senate passes a bill without the provision (the public option). The House…

rdan Sandwichman, the go to guy on labor issues and author of the series Chapman, Labor, and Unemployment at Econospeak suggests an alternative to the myth of supremacy of capital,…

…at his through a narrow lens focussing on who is in or out of political power and/or which party is holding the balance. There are alternative analytical schema that break…

Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator from Oregon who serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy Committee, is generally considered a liberal, though with a mixed bag of positions that…