This post was originally published on the Booman Tribune.
Hotline has a helpful whip count on House members’ position on health care reform. The math sure looks complicated. We have a lot of scaredy-cat Democrats and not a few who take their marching orders from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Let me tell you something. [...]
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This post was originally published on Hullabaloo.
According to Sam Stein members the Treasury Department, including Tim Geithner himself, met with a group of progressive bloggers yesterday to tell them what a good job the administration’s done all things considered, but that now they need to get the voters all charged up to help them pass [...]
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The following post was published on Think Progress.
Insurers have responded to the administration’s campaign against recent rate hikes by blaming increasing health care costs, provider cost increases and adverse selection (healthier Americans are dropping coverage) for their premium increases. To hear them tell it, the insurance industry is a low-profit industry that spends just one [...]
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Just in time for International Women’s Day comes a report with the most horrifying, depressing statistics (keep reading, there are solutions too!) about the massive wealth gap between women of color and other groups, including white women and African-American and Hispanic men. That women of color have it tougher than, say, white guys — and [...]
Stephen Schwarzman and David Rubenstein are co-founders of two of the largest private equity firms in the world, the Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group. Both are under investigation by the bubble baron research group, with seanhartnett and Dan doing a tremendous job researching their networks and following their money.
As it turns out, Schwarzman [...]