- The two deficits and the Rentiers | Hullabaloo – digby
- If you are finding yourself confused by the administration’s economic arguments, this post by Mike Konzcal homes in on why: the original “deficit” argument has morphed into a new deficit argument, even though they are using the same language to describe it. …
Krugman’s piece today speaks to how this plays out and it’s not pretty: [link]
- Joe Lieberman’s Plan to Make Health Care Worse and More Expensive – NYTimes.com
- Medicare has its problems — but all the evidence says that it is substantially more cost-effective than private insurance. Partly this is because it has lower administrative costs
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