The Catastrophic Insurance Option
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 20th, 2009 4:32 am by HL
The Catastrophic Insurance Option
Ross Douthat, New York Times
Three major problems plague American health care. The cost of premiums is eating up an ever larger share of take-home pay. The cost of our public health care programs is eating up an ever larger share of the federal budget. And millions of people who need insurance are priced out of the market. Now that Max Baucus's version of health care legislation has been blessed, at least provisionally, by the hands of Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, it's increasingly likely that Congress will pass reforms that address the third problem, while making the first two problems somewhat worse. If a…
Time to Reawaken Young Voters
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
The Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger
Peter Bergen, The New Republic
On July 25, Najibullah Zazi, a lanky man in his mid-twenties, walked into the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver. The visit was captured on a store video camera. Wearing a baseball cap and pushing a shopping cart, Zazi appeared to be just another suburban guy.Of course, not many suburban guys buy six bottles of Clairoxide hair bleach, as Zazi did on this shopping trip-or return a month later to buy a dozen bottles of “Ms. K Liquid,” a peroxide-based product. Aware that these were hardly the typical purchases of a heavily bearded, dark-haired young man,…
Why Obama’s Dithering is Dangerous
John Bolton, Los Angeles Times
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Media Wars: White House Crosses the Line
Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics
Every White House complains about its press coverage. A contentious relationship between the Executive Branch and a free and independent media is part of America's DNA. Always has been.But this White House seems to feel they're different. It's not just that the current occupant of the Oval Office has a particularly thin skin when it comes to criticism – which is especially ironic given that he's been the recipient of more glowing press coverage than possibly any candidate or president in modern American history. But not since Nixon conjured up an “enemies…
