Deficit Hawks Spin
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 9th, 2009 5:31 am by HL
Deficit Hawks Spin
Greg Kaufmann, The Nation
Lower Health Costs = Higher Paychecks
Ezra Klein, Washington Post
We've had a pretty good discussion this year on the public option and on "death panels." But for all the hype over health-care reform, we have not done a very good job of talking about the health-care system itself — in particular, why our system is so expensive. As a result, we're not doing a very good job of fixing it. There's still time to change that, but not much. The doomsaying is by now familiar: Left unchecked, health-care reform will bankrupt our nation. It will grow to consume every dollar of gross domestic product. And Congress isn't…
EPA Should Use Its Authority If Congress Doesn’t Act
An Innovation Agenda
David Brooks, New York Times
Finally, U.S. Leads on Global Warming
Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe
In a critical demonstration of backbone on global warming, the Obama administration yesterday declared carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant. Saying the country “will not ignore science and the law any longer,’’ Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said her findings and declaration “cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States government began addressing the challenge of greenhouse gas pollution.’’In a news briefing, Jackson rattled off the predicted effects of unabated…
