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Debt is a fact of life in America, making debt relief a national obsession. A search for "debt relief" on Google pulls up over 34 million pages; on Yahoo and MSN, the total is over 12 million pages.The average American household has ...
Martin Feldstein explains a fatal flaw of Obamacare in the Washington Post: A key feature of the House and Senate health bills would prevent insurance companies from denying coverage to anyone with preexisting conditions. As healthy individuals decline coverage in this way, ...
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus is expected to formally introduce the committee's long-awaited health reform bill on Wednesday, according to the WSJ, but questions linger from both Democrats and Republicans about the proposal.. Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat, said that "additional ...
Over the past two years, many policymakers have identified loan modifications as key to fighting the mortgage crisis. Both the Bush and Obama administration have initiated a series of policies to encourage modifications, yet results have not lived up to expectations. The ...
President Obama still supports having a government-backed health-insurance plan compete against private insurers. But if Congress passes a bill without a public plan, he might sign it.. " Here's a transcript; here are stories from the WSJ, New York Times and Washington ...
Those are the broad outlines of both the health-reform bill Sen. Ted Kennedy released yesterday, and of a draft plan presented to House Democrats also yesterday. Some Republicans (including John McCain) have backed this sort of tax. Sen. Max Baucus said yesterday ...