washingtonpost.com - 9/1/2009
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"Moderate" opponents of health-care reform like to say that we cannot afford it, particularly in the midst of a recession that has widened the deficit with both reduced tax revenue and the fiscal stimulus package. This was the argument advanced by Sen. Joe Lieberman on TV a week ago and repeated ...
washingtonpost.com - 9/3/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
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Obama to Address Congress on Health-Care Reform
michaeljamesmoney.blogspot.com - 8/27/2009
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The recommended maximum debt levels for homeowners have
always sounded high to me. But this has been...
little more than a feeling until I looked over some old numbers from when I bought my first house. This exercise has confirmed for me that the maximum ...
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Michael James on Money: How Much House Can You Really ...
capitalgainsandgames.com - 8/28/2009
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At least for me, it does. Earlier this
month, I blogged about what I think is the...
key issue in the health care reform debate, pre-existing conditions, and why I think the Republicans' part in the debate should be to focus only on that issue. (In a ...
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The Health Care Reform Mystery Deepens
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The Baseline Scenario —
... This week’s Washington Post health care column is on the question of whether we can afford health care reform – meaning whether we can afford to subsidize poor and middle-class people who cannot otherwise pay for health insurance. This has a different meaning depending on you interpret “we” as the U.S. economy in general or the federal government, but in either case we think the answer is “yes.” Or at least, as far as the federal government is concerned, the answer is that we can’t afford not doing some form of health ...
links for 2009-09-02
Economist's View —
... Measuring economic growth from outer space - voxeu.org
Can We Afford Health Care Reform? We Can't Afford Not to Do It. - Simon Johnson and James Kwak ...
Related: 2% can't afford health care
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The Distributed Republic
This has been making the rounds on Facebook lately:
No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.
I prefer alternative versions.
The Zombie version (via ...
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