How would private insurers fare when a government-run public option was playing against them? The non-partisan Center for Medicine in the Public Interest demonstrates that it wouldn’t be pretty. Watch:
Topics: free mark health reform, health care reform, Obama Health Care Plan, pelosi health bill

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Late for a party? Miss a meeting? Forget to pay your rent? Blame climate change; everyone else is doing it. From an increase in severe acne to all societal collapses since the beginning of time, just about everything gone wrong in the world today can be..
Topics: Cap and Trade Global Warming Bill, drought, effects of global warming, Energy and Environment, global cooling, Hurricane Katrina

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It’s official: U.S. taxpayers did not get a good deal when they bailed out AIG last year. That was the conclusion of a report released yesterday by Neil Barofsky, the federal government’s special inspector general for TARP. The...
Topics: aig, bankruptcy, Enterprise and Free Markets, geithner

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The government’s Web site that is supposed to tell taxpayers how their stimulus dollars are being spent, and which spends $84 million per year to do so, shows that $6.4 billion of the stimulus has been spent in 440 congressional districts that don’t..
Topics: economic stimulus, Enterprise and Free Markets, Recovery.gov, transparency

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The health care reform debate in the Senate may start this week – at least procedurally. Today or tomorrow, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is expected to move to proceed to either the House passed Pelosicare bill or another tax bill (either..
Topics: Harry Reid, Obama Health Care Plan

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