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Chicago’s Olympic bid & the President’s trip
I generally stick to pure economic policy issues, but will stray a bit to discuss the 2016 Olympic bid. I am a bit of an Olympics nut, and the intersection with the Washington debate interests [...]
Voting for health reform before voting against it
I am updating my projections based on feedback from some smart friends. I now think health reform is more likely to move through regular order than through reconciliation.
Wall Street Journal op-ed
Mike Leavitt, Al Hubbard and I have an op-ed about health care reform in today's Wall Street Journal.
Updated legislative scenarios for health reform
I last updated my legislative scenarios more than three weeks ago, on September 3rd. Since then we have had the President's speech, a lot of behind-the-scenes work on Congressional Democrats by the White House, and the beginning of the Senate Finance Committee markup. I think we also know at least the partial strategy of Democratic leaders.