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Timothy Noah is an American journalist. He is a senior writer for Slate Magazine, where he writes the "Chatterbox" column. He is also a contributing editor to The Washington Monthly. Noah was previously an assistant managing editor at U.S. News and World Report and a Washington reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was a staff writer at The New Republic and a congressional correspondent for Newsweek. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he was an editor of the Harvard Advocate. He resides in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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The Congressional Budget Office changes its mind about the House health reform bill's cost.

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. This might at first seem a trivial change, considering that the House bill is expected to increase federal spending by more than $1 trillion over 10 years. By contrast, the Senate ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office,  Nancy Pelosi,  John Dingell,  Edward M. Kennedy

Sen. Blanche Lincoln's Web site can't make up its mind about the public option.

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. "Health care reform must build upon what works and improve inefficiencies. Individuals should be able to choose from a range of quality health insurance plans. Options should ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  23 Nov 2009

How to amend, and not amend, the Senate health reform bill.

Health care reform limped to the Senate floor on a party-line vote, 60-39, after Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, and Ben Nelson of Nebraska gave their reluctant consent. (Republican Sen. George Voinovich of ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Blanche Lincoln,  Health and Human Services Department,  Mary Landrieu,  U.S. Republican Party

What it will cost you to deny health insurance to illegal immigrants.

In his Sept. 9 speech to Congress on health care, when President Obama said, "The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally," Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., shot back: "You lie!" What Obama meant was that health care reform would ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Joe Wilson (politician),  White House

What's inside Harry Reid's "blended" Senate health care reform bill.

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. The health care reform bill that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring to the floor (text, CBO score) is mostly better than the Senate finance bill on which it is largely ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Harry Reid,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  The Pentagon

Sen. Harry Reid's health reform strip tease.

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. Sen. Harry Reid will unveil his "blended" health care reform bill on Nov. 19. The Congressional Budget Office was expected to release its analysis of the bill on Nov. 18, but it's ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid,  Congressional Budget Office,  Richard Foster (politician)

The man who watered down the public option explains what government economists got wrong.

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the twilight struggle to create a "public option" ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Senate

A new government report says health reform will "jeopardize access" to Medicare.

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. While everybody waits for the Congressional Budget Office to weigh in with a cost estimate for all or part of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's "blended" health care reform bill, ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Congressional Budget Office,  U.S. Senate,  Harry Reid,  Barack Obama,  Richard Foster (politician)

Will Sen. Harry Reid tax the rich to pay for health reform?

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is reportedly reconsidering tax options for health care reform. According to the Associated Press, Reid is thinking about raising the part of the ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid,  Barack Obama,  Jay Rockefeller,  Dow Jones,  White House

A taxonomy of left-liberal opposition to the health care reform bill.

Click here for a guide to following the health care reform story online. The unemployment-is-more-important faction. One short month ago, health care reform had no more ardent advocate than Robert Reich—former labor secretary, current Berkeley ...

From TIMOTHY NOAH, Slate,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  White House,  Robert Reich,  U.S. Republican Party

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