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Senate Health Bill Needs Stronger Focus on Cost Control
Read moreSenate Health Bill Needs Stronger Focus on Cost Control November 19, 2009 Late yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid introduced the Patient...
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Senate Introduces New Health Care Bill
Read moreUPDATE: CLICK HERE TO SEE OUR LATEST CHARTS AND GRAPHS COMPARING THE DECEMBER 19TH MANAGER'S AMENDMENT TO THE HOUSE BILL. Yesterday Majority Leader...
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Updated Health Care Charts
Read moreUPDATE: SEE THE MARCH UPDATE HERE. CRFB has updated its health care chart, detailing the ten-year costs and savings from the most recent legislation...
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$98 Billion Wasted
Read moreGovernment agencies misspent over $98 billion last year, $26 billion more than was wasted the previous year, the Associated Press reports. The White...
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Debt Hits $12 Trillion
Read moreThis week, the gross national debt hit a record $12.031 trillion. Gross debt is a broad measure which includes both debt held by the public (currently...
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Senate Health Care Bill to Cost $849 Billion
Read moreBreaking news: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is finally in the midst of unveiling the health care reform plan that will be brought to the Senate...
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Taxing Health Care Decisions
Read moreInformation about the Senate health care bill is trickling in -- word is that coverage provisions will cost $849 billion over ten years and the bill...
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Will TARP be Renewed?
Read moreUPDATE: Treasury Secretary Geithner testified on Nov. 19 before the Joint Economic Committee, stating that "we are winding [TARP] down and will close...
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GM Outlook Improves Despite Q3 Losses
Read moreEarly this week, General Motors stated that while it is still experiencing losses, it has stabilized itself enough so that the company can begin...
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Several Executives Predict Third Stimulus
Read moreSeveral executives from General Electric and Bank of America Merrill Lynch said early this week in a BofA Merrill Lynch webcast that they see Congress...
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CMS Analyzes House Health Care Bill
Read moreOn Friday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a report estimating the effects of the House health care reform bill. Looking...
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Three More FDIC Bank Closings
Read moreOn Friday evening, the FDIC reported that it has taken over an additional three banks ( Pacific Coast National Bank, Orion Bank, Century Bank) for a...