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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 3/10/2009
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Ezra Klein writes that Republicans are drawing the lines of opposition to the progressive health care agenda in pretty narrow terms :
Does that matter? It’s hard to say. Rhetorically, the GOP has staked out a very narrow corner of opposition. Last week, Mitch McConnell, Chuck ...
reuters.com - 3/12/2009
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* Companies seek Swiss domiciles despite tax row
* U.S. political climate may be helping * Appeal
as corporate location may outlast offshore dispute By Sam Cage ZUG, Switzerland, March 12 (Reuters) - The tidy towns and mountain vistas of Switzerland ...
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RPT-FEATURE-Corporate oil booms in low-tax Switzerland
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corner.nationalreview.com - 3/9/2009
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Last week's health-care summit made clear that, as
far as the president is concerned, the question is
not whether the U.S. will enact universal coverage but how. When Obama gets it enacted, most historians will revere him as the president who ...
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2009, Not 1992
bloomberg.com - 3/13/2009
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March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
said they will soften rules on banking secrecy, responding
to growing international pressure to root out tax dodgers. Switzerland, where banking secrecy has been enshrined in law for 75 ...
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Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria Loosen Secrecy Rules ...
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One thing of note to add to this analysis of the Swiss health care system is that, as Ellen Immergut has pointed out, Switzerland is comparable to the U.S. in having an unusually large number of veto points that gave particularly high levels of power to minorities with a vested interest in the status quo. This isn't to say that things will play out in the same way (the institutional structures are still different), and Matt is right that the Dems should be pushing a public option as hard they can. But it's possible that something like the Swiss system is the ...
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