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Déjà vu all over again
In each of the following four headline pairs, one is from this morning. The other is from last year. See if you can guess which is which.
Health care reform CPR
Can Speaker Pelosi bring health care reform back from the dead? Did it ever really die?
Health reform that would break the bank
I respond to a point in Budget Director Orszag and White House Health Policy Advisor DeParle's Washington Post op-ed. America's primary fiscal problem is the long-term growth of health entitlement spending. The Senate-passed bill creates a commitment for a new health entitlement program, and takes advantage of a gimmick to claim that this commitment is paid for. Instead, this bill would guarantee a future fiscal crisis.
Introducing Budget Bubble Graphs
The fiscal policy debate focuses only on deficits and ignores a major philosophical distinction between the two parties: different beliefs about the appropriate size of government. I am going to do my best to correct this by expanding its scope and introducing a new kind of graph. I call it a Budget Bubble Graph.