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In the comments to my earlier post on the CBO's premium estimates, reader Janice Doe asks:
I'm confused. McArdle says the CBO
says that premiums are going up for those in the individual market.
Krugman and Yglesias say the CBO says premiums are going down for the
same market (and Krugman ...
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Scientists create meat in a vat . There are a bunch of caveats. The meat is not currently edible--they need to figure out how to "excercise" it to give it muscle tone. And it still seems to use some sort of meat brother for nutrients, which kind of defeats the purpose. But it looks ...
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Health care bloggers have been waiting with bated breath for the CBO's report on health insurance premiums, which came out today. The upshot: premiums in the large and small group markets, which account for the lion's share of non-government health insurance, will not be ...
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The overwhelming majority of people who have private insurance are covered by their employers. That will still be true under any of the proposed reforms. So it's worth looking at what happens to premiums in the employer-based market after a given plan takes effect. If the plan is the ...
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 21 hours ago
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If you were counting on what Glenn Reynolds
calls "the retail support brigade" to come riding over...
the hills, you might want to rethink. After last year turned in one of the worst holiday shopping seasons in decades , people were hoping that things ...
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Black Friday Points to a Grim Holiday Season for Retailers
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 18 hours ago
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As the Senate moves to debate the Senate
health care bill, we're seeing another stream of opinion...
pieces that fall into the broad category of " Oh my God! Who would have thought that a government run health care plan would make coverage ...
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The Abortion Wars Heat Up
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 2 days ago
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While you were all stuffing yourself with turkey
and gorging on sweet potato souffle, Dubai World, the...
Dubai government's investment arm, asked investors for some extra time to make its debt payments. In normal times, this would be a big problem ...
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Rumbles in the Desert
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 3 days ago
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Reader Nimed sends along this short video on
peer review in the climate change community: On a...
more serious note, this interview with the head of the UN's climate experts is ridiculous . He responds to concerns about the peer review process ...
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More on ClimateGate
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 4 days ago
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By the President of the United States of
America. A Proclamation. The year that is drawing towards...
its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed ...
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Let Us Give Thanks
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 4 days ago
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Thanksgiving is here, which for some people means
the start of a month of overeating. For others,...
of course, it marks the start of a month of overspending, kicked off by Black Friday. This year, the competition is particularly fierce, and all ...
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Looking Ahead to Black Friday
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 4 days ago
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Michael O'Hare will probably be surprised to find
that I agree with him (one hopes pleasantly), but...
I think that his post on higher education is extremely well done. He makes two important points. First, the American model of education ...
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When the Public Coffers Run Dry
Ezra Klein has a nice column on how you might keep yourself from overeating this Thanksgiving. I cannot actually recommend my current strategy, which is to get bilateral un-crowned root canals 1 , so that you have to spend the next three weeks eating only foods which are squishy. But ...
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Ezra Klein
With Obama's job approval ratings trending below 50%, and health care looking like it may settle into the 30's, Democrats are rallying moderates to health care reform with the following narrative: sure, passing this may be unpopular, but failing to pass it will be even more ...
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 5 days ago
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With Obama heading to Copenhagen, where he's expected
to pledge some pretty big cuts in US carbon...
emissions, the ClimateGate story is an economic story as well as a political one. I said before that I don't think the emails refuted the notion ...
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The Real Problem With the Climate Science Emails
Remember the wave of right wing violence, like the murder of the census worker? How Michelle Bachmann and Glenn Beck were muderers, and anyone who said that we should wait to see what the investigation revealed was a lunatic apologist for reactionary terror? Now it turns out the thing was ...
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Glenn Beck
Kevin Drum : ABC News reports
that in the past 16 months the number of people who believe in global
warming has dropped 8 percentage points. But the drop is skewed almost
completely by ideology: among liberals and moderates there's been a
change of only a couple of points, which ...
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ABC News
There is a right way and a wrong way to blame George Bush for future budget deficits. The wrong way is to get mad about his tax cuts and the Iraq war. By 2019--the end of the budget window, and the period with which us structural deficit hawks are concerned--the Bush tax cuts will ...
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meganmcardle.theatlantic.com - 6 days ago
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Posting about our coming entitlement problem generates some
non-sequiturs masquerading as incisive political commentary. Conservatives have "no...
credibility" on budget deficits because George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan ran big deficits You are ...
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Budget Non-Sequiturs
I should clarify my earlier post on abortion, which I think I wrote too hastily. First of all, on how Democrats used the filibuster: they didn't use it to filibuster Supreme Court nominees, but conservative judges who would have been successful supreme court nominees had they ended ...
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In the entry on structural and cyclical deficits on the Business site, a commenter says: Megan opens with "Liberals are focusing on the cyclical deficit, which is not a big problem. Conservatives are talking about the structural deficit, which is a huge problem." She then contradicts herself ...
