nytimes.com - 6/5/2009
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“I appreciate your efforts, and look forward to working with you so that the Congress can complete health care reform by October.” So declared President Obama in a letter this week to Senators Max Baucus and Edward Kennedy. The big health care push is officially on. But the devil is in the ...
nytimes.com - 6/12/2009
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nytimes.com —
Back in April, there was a huge fuss
over an internal report by the Department of Homeland...
Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma ...
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Op-Ed Columnist - The Big Hate
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Moon of Alabama —
... it alone.
West miscasts Tiananmen protesters FT. The demonstrations were not 'pro-democracy'.
UK government heads towards cliff edge FT.
The half-dead prime minister Guardian. The Gordon Brown zombie.
The Bond War Slate. Inflation, defaltion: The discussion continues.
Plan to Help Banks Clear Their Books Is Halted NYT. PPIP and TALF a too obvious fraud, dead.
Keeping Them Honest Krugman/NYT. Why health care reform needs a public insurance ...
Paul Krugman: Keeping Them Honest
Economist's View —
... Keeping Them
Honest, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: “I appreciate your efforts,
and look forward to working with you so that the Congress can complete health
care reform by October.” So declared President Obama in a letter this week to
Senators Max Baucus and Edward Kennedy. ...
What's the point of a public option?
Greg Mankiw's Blog —
In the national debate over health insurance reform, a key issue is whether the government should offer a "public plan" to compete with private insurers. For example, in today's NY Times, Paul Krugman writes, ...
The public health insurance plan
Marginal Revolution —
Felix Salmon has a long and interesting discussion. Here is comment from Ezra Klein, who distinguishes different versions of the public plan idea and also links to further reading. Matt Yglesias comments in favor of the idea. Here is a Paul Krugman column. Arnold Kling is skeptical. Those are good introductions to the debate. On the economics, Ezra writes: Rather, the theory here is simple: If you can't replace them, convert
them. If the public plan works, then private insurance will work better
as ...
The Public Plan, Again
Greg Mankiw's Blog —
The possibility of including a public plan in the health reform bill is on the table again. Here are a few viewpoints on the topic: Robert Samuelson, Paul Krugman, Richard Thaler, and me. ...
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