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Health Care and Election Timelines

…comment and publication requirements. Ho-hum. July 2011 to Dec 2012. Contract negotiation between insurance companies and the Commissioner, near the end of this period private companies and the public option…

"Encouraging Veterans to Commit Suicide"

…Steel declares healthcare reform would result in the same bad public policy as shown in a 1997 VA manual encouraging veterans to commit suicide. The manual which encouraged veterans to…

Innovation

…and Medicaid and raise taxes for everyone. She wavers on which aspect is most important–she said it was public choice theory, then she said it was giving the government a…

State pension systems

…bill paying for public pensions. And we don’t want taxes raised to pay for public pensions.’ And that is understandable,” says Mike Burnside, executive director of the Kentucky Retirement Systems….

Nuclear Option and Trust

…policy. For a fiscal stimulus (current tax cut or public spending increase) to boost demand, it is necessary that the markets and the public at large believe that sooner or…