Marc Goldwein's blog

In the Los Angeles Times last Friday Nancy Altman argued that in achieving health care reform, “President Barack Obama could learn from Franklin D. Roosevelt” and his passage of the Social Security Act. Among other things, Altman essentially argues that President Obama should take his message directly to the people (what political scientists call "going public") in order to sell health care reform.

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After allocating hundreds of billions of dollars in an attempt to stimulate consumer demand, it seems like we've found something that actually works: the $1 billion "cash for clunkers" program.
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When I began blogging at YPNation, I didn't envision writing so much about health care policy. But it seems health care reform is all anyone can talk about these days -- and everybody's worried.
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According to the New York Times, support is waning for limiting the tax exclusion on employer sponsored insurance (ESI) in order to pay for some of the costs of expanding health insurance coverage. According to the article:
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Recently, CBO released its Long-Term Budget Outlook, projecting deficits will hit 7.5 percent of GDP by 2020, almost 15 percent by 2035, and well over 40 percent by the end of the 75-year budget window if we continue current policies. Driving these deficits is the rapid growth of Medicare, Medicaid, and to a lesser extent Social Security, along with the subsequent interest payments that result from high levels of debt sustained through continued borrowing.
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