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- Healthcare Reform Kicks Into High Gear
- Just one month ago, the conventional wisdom in Washington -- here personified by inside-the-Beltway health guru Bob Laszewski -- was that the economic crisis and a vast federal bailout package had effectively killed any chance for an overhaul of the nation's creaky healthcare system. Don't count on...
- Blog posts 2008-11-12
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- Will the Obama Plan Work?
- FinancialSpiltMilk submits: While I have noted that I like the Obama Plan (or used to, see below) and have explained why, I nonetheless have also noted that I don't think it will work - at least not as expected. Principally, I don't think the government going into debt to...
- External links 2009-01-06
- How to Compound Systemic Risk: The Obama Plan
- Benign Brodwicz submits: The Obama plan is exactly backwards in its approach to systemic risk. It will increase systemic risk. As pointed out by one of the leaders of econophysics, Eugene Stanley here, one of the prime results in the exploding field of network theory is...
- External links 2009-06-19
- Obama "too Big to Fail" Plan Blasted in Congress
- By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's new proposal for tackling financial risk in the U.S. economy, unveiled just two days ago, came under attack on Thursday from Congress and regulators, with questions raised about its funding and scope. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner scrambled in a congressional...
- News items 2009-10-29
- PhRMA v. Obama: Battle Lines Drawn
- Before President Obama is even sworn in, the battle lines between PhRMA and the healthcare reformers are already being drawn. The drugmaker's lobbyist group is drawing up a campaign to defeat Obama's healthcare reform ideas even before he has actually proposed any. PhRMA is preparing: a multimillion-dollar public relations...
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Obama Tax Plan Hitting Silicon Valley
- President Barack Obama's new plan to tax overseas profits is getting heat from technology companies which believe they will be adversely affected. While technology companies are not specifically targeted by the tax package, many, like Cisco, HP, IBM, Microsoft and Dell have substantial overseas activities and profits....
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- The Obama Plan for Corralling 'Benedict Arnold CEOs'
- Top corporate execs that exploit U.S. tax breaks to ship jobs overseas are "Benedict Arnold CEOs," U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) proclaimed when he ran for president in 2004. President Obama might not use that language, but clearly he shares Kerry's belief that American tax laws need...
- Blog posts 2009-05-06
- Clay Christensen: Where Obama's Education Plan Fails
- Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen looks at President Obama's stimulus spending for education and finds it missing the grade in important areas. Writing on Harvard Business Publishing with Michael Horn, Christensen suggests that at least some of the spending is throwing money at existing, outdated programs...
- Blog posts 2009-02-20
- Is the Obama Plan Creating Unfounded Market Optimism?
- Rakesh Saxena submits: Some Washington lawmakers are now talking of a $1 trillion government spending package to kick-start the US economy; last week the figure was closer to $500 billion. But before any stimulus plan can save or create the first job, certain formative developments are likely to reduce the...
- External links 2008-12-07
- A Response to the Geithner Financial Rescue Plan
- Brad DeLong submits: Brief notes on the Geithner Financial Rescue Plan: Called the Geithner Plan, not the Obama Plan--distancing of the president from the proposal. by Brad DeLong
- External links 2009-02-11
- The Obama Plan: We Can't Entitle Our Way Out of Paying Taxes
- Diane Lim Rogers submits: Thursday’s Wall Street Journal contained an opinion column by Glenn Hubbard, arguing that ”We Can’t Tax Our Way Out of the Entitlement Crisis.” Glenn, whom I worked closely with as his resident tax-policy antagonist at the Council of Economic Advisers for the first 100 days of...
- External links 2008-08-24
- Is the Obama Administration Giving Up On a Public-Sector Insurance Plan?
- I doubt it. Progressives are in the middle of a long negotiation with conservatives that will end in conference committee late this fall, where politicians will merge the Senate and House versions of the bills, hammering out the differences. We know that the House bill contains a strong public sector...
- News items 2009-08-18
- Don't like Obamacare? Here's an alternative
- NEW YORK Fortune -- This is the second installment in a series of health-care columns by Fortune's Shawn Tully. Unlike the House bill that fills 1,100 pages, my proposed health-care plan can be expressed in four simple bullet points. The marketplace, with more than 100 million consumers writing their own...
- News items 2009-08-19
- Obama chooses three more to take on financial reforms
- CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday named three veteran regulators to round out his economic team and vowed to revamp regulatory rules to prevent a repeat of the financial and economic debacles the country is now undergoing. He wouldn't weigh in on whether he would support a decision by...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Can Obama Deliver Real Healthcare Reform?
- The outlines of President Obama’s healthcare reform plan are coming into view. Instead of proposing a grand scheme, like the Clinton reform plan, the President first threw out some ideas about where where to make cuts in government funding of healthcare to help finance an expansion of coverage. Then today,...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Obama, Insurers Go Toe-to-Toe
- President Obama today rebutted insurance industry claims that the proposed “public optionâ€â€"a government-sponsored plan that would compete with private insurersâ€"would lead to the end of the employer-based insurance system. “If private insurers say that the marketplace provides the best quality health care ... then why is it...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- House GOP Warns Obama on Network Neutrality
- In a familiar refrain from previous regulatory wars over the Internet, House Minority Leader John Boehner and House Republican whip Eric Cantor tell Obama new network neutrality rules proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski will stifle investment in networks.The House Republican leadership warned President Obama Oct. 2 that...
- News items 2009-10-05
- Obama's Housing Fix Falls Flat
- Jeff Nielson submits: Data released from the Mortgage Bankers Association shows the Obama “mortgage-rescue plan” has been a total failure. While the Obama regime boldly predicted that “4 to 5 million”Americans would he helped by the plan in the first year, after three months only 13,000 mortgage-refinancings have been executed...
- External links 2009-06-24
- Tips From Obama: Getting Others Behind Your Proposal
- If you are trying to get the go-ahead to implement changes at your company, you should avoid finger pointing, obtain a broad base of supporters, and change the tone of your pitch for different audiences. These are keys to victory, if President Barack Obama's successes and failures in passing the...
- Blog posts 2009-04-21
- Insurers Expand Primary Care: an Argument for Obama's Plan
- Imagine appointments with your primary care doctor that last 30 minutes—or longer. What if you could e-mail her when you need a prescription refill? If you have a two-minute question, she encourages you to call; she or a nurse practitioner will come to the phone. If they're busy, they'll return...
- News items 2009-08-07
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