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How Much Does A Decade of Health Care Reform Cost? It Depends on What You Mean By "First Decade."

When the Congressional Budget Office scores a bill, its looks at the budgetary effects over the immediate ten year window. So on the health care bill, the headline cost of $849 billion covers the period between 2010 and 2019. Problem is, it's a ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Hit and Run,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office

Let's Make a Deal, Health Care Reform Edition

It's been widely reported that Sen. Mary Landrieu got a nine-figure handout for her state in order to secure her vote on a procedural motion for health care reform. But Landrieu's deal isn't the only one. According to The Hill, the side deals are ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Reason,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mary Landrieu,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  Mazie Hirono,  U.S. Democratic Party

Speaking Government-Funded Truth to Government-Funded Power

Sure, everybody thinks they like journalism. But my guess is that what they really like is the moviefied, Redfordized myth of journalism: the arch newsroom chatter, the fedoras, the natty corduroy coats, the curmudgeonly editors and stacks of ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Hit and Run,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Liverpool F.C.

Health Care Reform in Massachusetts: Still a Bad Idea

Health care reform advocates have taken, in recent weeks, to noting that insurance premiums on the individual market in Massachusetts—the state where a variant on proposed national reforms is already in place—have fallen in recent years. And if ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Reason,  23 Nov 2009

"Being a D&D player has made me understand the importance of respect in relationships."

The title quote comes from online sex-mag Nerve, in a feature titled "Sex Advice from Dungeons & Dragons Players." Also in the piece: Advice on the advantages and disadvantages of dating your fellow gamers: My Game Master and best friend recently ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Hit and Run,  23 Nov 2009

Sarah Palin! Health Care Reform! Video Games!

That popping sound you heard was John's head exploding. I hope you're happy, Suder-Man. reply to this Jesus H. If you had only added abortion, you coulda broken the comment record. reply to this you coulda broken the comment record. How so? ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Hit and Run,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin

Health Care Hits the Senate

The 60 vote threshold creates something of a hurdle for reformers, in large part it gives those Democrats least interested in voting for reform (or at least reform that looks something like the legislation we now see) a significant incentive to be ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Reason,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Mary Landrieu,  Barack Obama

In Hollywood, "Show Me Some Skin" and "Show Me the Money" Aren't the Same Thing

the selling power of sex might be more linked to age/sex groups. I was a teenage boy in the 80's and that is when it seemed to me that naked boobs greatly increased the value of a movie...nowadays not so much. However with the internet, teenage ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Hit and Run,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Brad Pitt

Is Health Care Reform Really Deficit Neutral?

Not if you include the cost of the "doc fix"—the permanent change to Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors—that the House yanked out of their reform package so that its bad fiscal news wouldn't show up in their allegedly deficit neutral health ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Reason,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party

Harry Reid Wins a News Cycle

Needless to say, those numbers are the numbers Reid is happiest to have people see: According to a handout prepared for reporters this evening, the bill would cost about $850 billion, cover 94 percent of the uninsured, reduce the deficit by $127 ...

From PETER SUDERMAN, Reason,  19 Nov 2009

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