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reason.com - 30 days ago
Cutting the Deficit is Not the Same as Spending Less
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The New York Times ' health-care blog has a long post going over the fuzzy numbers House Democrats have used to make their recently released, 1,990-page health-care bill more palatable. The post covers a lot of the same territory as I did last Friday : It's only $900 billion if you ...
Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit
nytimes.com - 10/31/2009
Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit
— nytimes.com — Senator Kent Conrad, a co-sponsor of a plan to create a deficit-cutting commission says, “It is imperative... that we act.” (more) Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Suderman is unhappy with how healthcare bill costs are being presented: It's true that the reform bills, as written, produce some savings by cutting certain types of Medicare expenditures. But that money is then repurposed to help pay for subsidies so that lower-income people can buy insurance. And that money only pays for some of the new expenditures in the bill. The rest comes from either a surtax on expensive insurance plans (in the Senate plan) or a new tax on couples who earn more than a million dollars a year and individuals who earn more than ...

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