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Sheldon Whitehouse on the insurance business model that reform will displace. Good stuff.
Archive for December, 2009
December 21st, 2009
Category: Health Care
The Senate health bill will provide $196 billion per year in subsidies to poor and working people. That’s a big number…
December 21st, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Except when it comes to rape and needle exchange and airline passengers’ rights and …
December 21st, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
One of the right-wing talking points on health care is that the bill is unpopular. Actual polling results from CNN: 42% approve of the bill; another 13% don’t think it’s liberal enough. Only 39% oppose it as too liberal. Does that sound to you like something that’s going to generate a Republican groundswell in 2010? [...]
December 21st, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
One of the provisions that got added to Harry Reid’s manager’s amendment at the last minute was a requirement that insurance policies sold through the exchanges have medical loss ratios of at least 80%. In insurance jargon, the “loss ratio” is the percentage of premium dollars paid out in claims. The “medical loss ratio” [...]
December 20th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
Amazingly, Joe Lieberman decided against another double-cross. And the Ayes have it.
December 20th, 2009
Category: Affordable Care Act, Health Care
Mike Enzi quotes Howard Dean. Predictable.
December 19th, 2009
Category: Affordable Care Act
It looks like there are now sixty votes in the Senate to pass the healthcare bill: all of them Democrats. Now can we end the filibuster?
December 18th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
The Netroots now prefer the Teabaggers to Barack Obama. What’s wrong with this picture?