I will put on my healthcare wonk hat for a second and quibble with Ezra’s reaction to John Edwards’s just-released health plan. [I]t puts the onus of the responsibility for funding health coverage on employers, a decision I don’t quite understand. The employers can satisfy that responsibility by either providing comprehensive care, or helping employees …
Archives for February 2007
KMBA Watch
Budget edition. Bush’s spending plan would make his first-term tax cuts permanent, at a cost of $1.6 trillion over 10 years. He is seeking $78 billion in savings in the government’s big health care programs — Medicare and Medicaid — over the next five years. Washington Post: The president’s budget would also reduce spending for …
Non-Football Open Thread
By request. Some IPCC-related links if people feel like talking about climate: Washington Post. Tim Lambert deals with some confusion about sea level predictions. The part about hurricanes doesn’t say much. There are more hurricanes in the Atlantic and warming seas will absolutely magnify hurricane strength. That is just a natural consequence of how huricanes …
Super Bowl Open Thread
Even though I am an AFC guy, after much deliberation, I have decided to back the efforts of the Bears. I simply refuse to hear about the awesomeness of the whiny Peyton Manning for the next six months. Plus, Ditka.
Shoot Me
Dinesh D’Souza on CSPAN2, roughly translated: Terrorists were right to attack America because people like me are in it. Also, what happened to civil discourse? The last five years in a nutshell. *** Direct quote: “I think that I am completely in the mainstream of American conservatism.” I guess he means that modern conservatism is …
Contractors
For various reasons I don’t automatically think that contracting government work is a bad idea. If a reasonably empirical analysis suggests that we would benefit from transferring a job to the lowest bidder then I’m all for it. So that’s not why it concerns me that the GOP has shunted government jobs to a record-breaking …
I Will Try to Behave
And not take too much pleasure out of this. It will not be easy.