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I'm sure Mr. Hiatt opposed the Iraq war with all its spending, Right? : http://bit.ly/4BwdBC 9 days ago |
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A high price for health reform - http://bit.ly/1LS78p 10 days ago |
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...treating insurance through an employer as taxable personal income. http://is.gd/4ROS2 11 days ago |
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... a guess, the fastest progress in the technology of daily life — the biggest changes — probably came between the 1880s and the 1920s. But good stuff has been happening all along. EJ Dionne: Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd directly, the government-haters lose. Fred Hiatt: The House bill would move us toward universal health coverage ...
Senate Health Care: Socialist Bill Too Big To Fail?
Riehl World View —
... It will drive the US toward bankruptcy. But the one and his many little nanny state collectivists want it, so it must be done! ...
Thanks, Fred
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Fred Hiatt on the immorality of health care reform: Yet neither should a civilized nation saddle its coming generations with a lower standard of living, a likely effect of U.S. profligacy if unchecked. No civilized nation should leave its government too bankrupt to help the poor. Huh. Seems to be the kind of thing you'd want to keep in mind while advocating the invasion and indefinite occupation of an endless series of random countries, Fred. ...
When You’ve Lost the Washington Post…
PoliPundit.com —
Some WaPo bigwig explains some of the flaws of PelosiCare:
The bill also could take America a step closer to bankruptcy. And for progressives in particular — for those who believe that government has a mission to help the poor and protect the vulnerable — that prospect should be alarming. If federal debt continues rising on its present path, hastened by a $1 trillion health-care bill, it is the poor and vulnerable who will be most harmed.
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True, the Congressional Budget Office has said that the bill is paid ...
Fred Hiatt Makes Up Statistics To Claim Health Care Would Bankrupt America
Wonk Room —
... In this morning’s Washington Post, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt argues that the House health care bill “could take America a step closer to bankruptcy” and harm “the poor and vulnerable.” ...
In a world with a broken Congress ...
Ezra Klein —
... Fred Hiatt's column today calls the House's health-care reform bill "a step closer to bankruptcy." But he's not really talking about the House's health-care reform bill, which he admits the Congressional Budget Office has assessed as not only deficit neutral but deficit improving. He's talking about, first, a fix to Medicare reimbursement rates that really isn't part of health-care reform, and, second, the capacity of Congress to make hard decisions about, well, anything. Fair points both, but neither here nor there when it comes to the House legislation. ...
Fred Hiatt employs fuzzy math to claim House health bill would bring ‘America a step closer to bankruptcy.’
Think Progress —
... In this morning’s Washington Post, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt argues that the House health care bill “could take America a step closer to bankruptcy” and harm “the poor and vulnerable.” But since the ...
