So it looks as if the Senate’s bill will be released tomorrow and WSJ shares the broad strokes… Employers with more than 50 workers wouldn’t be required to provide health insurance, but they would face fines of up to $750 per emplo...

Who’s this guy? Meet Kenneth R. Feinberg, the new pay “czar” for the White House. He’s tasked with reigning in the out of control compensation at companies the government helped recently. I think it should be noted right of...

I hadn’t, but when I did…wow. First, right there on the front page you have a map that details the total dollars announced, available and spent on the both the national and state levels (when you mouse over each graph or state). But the...

Stepping out of the shadows and into the spotlight today is Dem Senator Tom Carper from Delaware. He’s offering a third way on health care that could garner enough bipartisan support to pass. Essentially, it gives states the option to choose b...

“In LaCrosse, Wisc., the Gundersen Lutheran Hospital system is, according to the Dartmouth, the least expensive place in America for the last two years of life. They have an advanced directive program, and over 90 percent of their patients have...

Major Parties, Minor Parties and Anti-Parties Momentum continues to build for open primaries in California, and most but not all partisans (including minor partisans like Libertarians and Greens) don’t support primaries that would allow everyone...

CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of Health and Human Services, has provided some analysis of the new senate plan forwarded by a group of Democratic senators and majority leader Reid. The “estimated financial effects” include...

I know many don’t think Sarah Palin is a smart woman. And hey, fair enough. It’s not like she made a good impression in 2008. However, I think you have to possess some smarts to become Governor of any state. After all, look how Dubya parlayed his run...

Initially promised as a “bridge” between moderate and liberal Democrats, majority leader Reid’s plan to extend Medicare benefits to those 55 and older who cannot obtain private insurance is running into resistance. From Politico: Senate moderates who...