Ezra Klein Archive: Health Reform
You can't cut the deficit without a bill that cuts the deficit
David Broder has a column today expressing skepticism that health-care reform will really cut the deficit. But he doesn't provide much evidence for the charge. The specific budget gimmick mentioned in the column is that Reid has delayed the subsidies...
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November 21, 2009; 12:34 PM ET |
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The worst policy idea in the world gets a bit better but still isn't good enough
Harry Reid's bill has made a number of complicated changes to the free-rider provision, a.k.a. The Worst Policy Idea in the World. The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities says these tweaks make the free rider a bit better, although...
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November 20, 2009; 3:16 PM ET |
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Part D Republicans
Bruce Bartlett tees off on the Republicans who voted for the deficit-busting Medicare part D but now say their concern for the debt prevents them from supporting the deficit-improving health-care reform bill. Just to be clear, the Medicare drug benefit...
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November 20, 2009; 1:37 PM ET |
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Lunch break
Next week, as you may have heard, is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a nice holiday marred by the tradition of eating turkey, which is probably the least tasty of all meats. Think how much more thankful you'd be if you were...
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November 20, 2009; 12:34 PM ET |
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Cloture vote on health care scheduled for Saturday. Also on the agenda: Cruel, cruel irony.
Today, the Senate debates. I've been watching all morning. Not sure what it says that the level of debate in my comments is a whole lot higher than in the world's greatest deliberative democracy. Either way, tomorrow, the Senate...
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November 20, 2009; 11:17 AM ET |
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Defining health benefits
I don't want to spend a lot of time talking about actuarial values and you don't want to spend a lot of time talking about actuarial values, but they're pretty much at the center of the Senate health-care reform bill,...
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November 19, 2009; 11:15 AM ET |
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