Month: March 2010

If you walk into a bar and tell someone that we can spend a trillion dollars and cover thirty million uninsured Americans and the effect on the budget will be to save $1.3 trillion over the next twenty years, you’ll...

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. It’s hard to believe, but an estimated 2.6 billion people in the developing  world—nearly a third of the global population—still lack...

As chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations, Bart Stupak held hearings last June on the practice of recissions, whereby health insurance companies cancel your coverage once they...

The Australian magpie is Imogen’s favorite bird.  She had a pet one in her teens named Claude (a female, actually). They raised it from a fledgling but it refused to leave when released. Magpies haven’t been on...

I’m sure that Labor knows it, but they’re now in a position of maximum leverage, with the White House desperate to take another pound of flesh out of the the so-called Cadlillac health care plans in order to pay for...