In two previous articles, "Maintain Tax Cuts for the Rich? Americans Don't Seem to Buy the Conservative Argument" and the "Efficacy of Tax Cuts Is now Questioned" I laid out two basic premises. One was that a majority of the American people … [Read more...]
CBO Score: Better than the original Senate bill
Ezra reports on the CBO's new scoring of the health care bill with reconciliation fixes [my emphasis below]:According to a Democratic source, CBO has finished its work and will release the official preliminary score later today. But … [Read more...]
Health Care Call to Action
Ezra explains why this is a reasonable request: There's no reason the CBO shouldn't be asked to run the numbers on H.R. 676 (the leading single-payer bill). Single payer is, after all, the most common set-up for the health systems of … [Read more...]
Universal Health Care pays for itself; read McCain’s lips.
Not that I'm necessarily up in arms about that, but since McCain has absolutely sworn up and down that he'd be as much of a plutocrat as George W. Bush, it strikes me as interesting: Mr. Holtz-Eakin calculated that workers in … [Read more...]