▼ Author Community Vote 69 days ago -- Inflation and the Fed - In general, the Fed's behavior tends ... - — In general, the Fed's behavior tends to track the Taylor Rule, which is an economic formula based off a mixture of unemployment and inflation. Don't worry, there's not going to be a quiz. Suffice to say that the situation remains bad enough, and strange enough … 69 days ago -- Mammograms and leeches - With the Senate health bill dropping ... - — With the Senate health bill dropping on Wednesday night, I haven't had time to dig into the new mammogram standards as deeply as I'd like. Suffice to say, you could hardly imagine a better example of why cost control is so hard: This was a recommendation … 70 days ago -- What happens before 2014? - A lot of people have been asking ... - — A lot of people have been asking what the Senate bill does immediately. To put it another way, in 2010 and 2012, when Republicans are saying that reform has done nothing despite the fact that it hasn't yet gone into effect, what will Democrats be able to brag about? 70 days ago -- Health-care reform's grand bargain - — There's nothing fun about reading legislative language. But spend enough time reading legislative language and it makes reading other things seem fun, like CBO reports. And so it was last night, where after hours spent digging through the legislative text … 71 days ago -- Health-care reform will not be remembered for its price tag - — The numbers came first. The Senate bill, we now know, costs a smidge under $850 billion during its first 10 years, cuts the deficit by $127 billion, and covers 31 million people. In the second decade, it cuts the deficit by an improbably large $650 billion. 72 days ago -- Evan Bayh: No difference between voting for a filibuster and voting against a bill - — “For the final vote,” says Evan Bayh, “I see no distinction between substance and procedure.” That is to say, if he decides to vote against the bill, he'll also vote against breaking a filibuster. 75 days ago -- Did the invention of the airplane end the filibuster? - — Whenever I write about ending the filibuster, the same question arises: Why doesn't Reid let the Republicans go at it? If you can't end the filibuster, you can at least make sure that the minority actually has to talk for weeks on end, as opposed to simply threatening to do so. 76 days ago -- Some worrying signs out of the Senate - — Health reform ain't easy. — Expectations were that the Senate would get the CBO score for its health-care bill today. It didn't. Or, to be more precise, it didn't get the CBO score it wanted. The proposal Reid's office sent to the CBO … 76 days ago -- How Stupak's amendment could change the whole insurance market - — Brian Beutler has a good post assessing the Stupak amendment's likely impact on the exchanges. “It is safe to say,” he concludes, “that the vast majority of, if not all, women in the exchanges will not be allowed to have abortion coverage in their benefits packages.” 76 days ago -- CBO: Don't trust the CBO - It comes right there on the second page ... - — It comes right there on the second page of CBO director Doug Elmendorf's presentation on the the long-term fiscal threat. The slide is titled “three reasons that the fiscal challenge is especially acute,” and the first is that “current policy as perceived …

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