I'm fascinated and horrified by this story:
Hamp (Home Affordable Modification Program) is aimed at reducing interest payments and delaying principal payments for eligible homeowners. To do this they have to apply and then agree to enter a three-month trial period, in which they need to make the lower' [...]
Hamp (Home Affordable Modification Program) is aimed at reducing interest payments and delaying principal payments for eligible homeowners. To do this they have to apply and then agree to enter a three-month trial period, in which they need to make' [...]
The Vikings want a new stadium. Now that the Twins have a new stadium, the football team wants a new one even more than they did before. And, I hear the team would like to see the state, county, city and/or taxpayers pay for it.
Why? Don’t they know there [...]
No sooner did I learn that "teabagger" was a finalist for word of the year with those language gatekeepers at the Oxford English Dictionary, than a rumor arrived that state Representative Randy Demmer will be jumping into the GOP efforts to unseat two-term Congressman Walz. [...]
While both the Senate and House health-care bills guarantee access to health insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions, neither one will do much to improve the affordability of health [...]
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. Photo: WDCpix
It happens in every recession: Medicaid enrollment leaps at precisely the same time that states are least able to afford the additional costs. The structural flaw has left state lawmakers threatening program cuts, [...]
No reason of law or justice, history or tradition, supports the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. in federal court. Indeed, as Thomas Sowell observes, it is something of an obscenity.
The cost of cloaking Khalid Sheikh Mohammed et al. with the constitutional protections afforded American citizens comes at [...]
We recently learned that after ending health insurance for 30,000 of the poorest Minnesotans on a program called General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC), Governor Pawlenty plans to shift most of these individuals to MinnesotaCare. While MinnesotaCare has worked extremely well for working Minnesotans who are unable to access affordable health [...]
Majority of Blue Dogs, Democratic Representatives in '08 Pick-up Districts, and Democrats in Competitive Districts All Vote in Favor of Bill
One of the reasons political analysts suspected Democrats might face difficulty in passing health care reform in the House this year, was due to potential holdouts among' [...]
The first quote I remember from presidential campaigns was Gerald Ford declaring that Jimmy Carter would soon become a “one-term wonder.” He said it with such confidence that it’s stuck with me all these years. That quote was triggered this morning because, in his first hour as a congresscritter, [...]
Later today you will be voting on H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Your college from Michigan, John Dingell, made a very compelling case to vote yes on the bill. Since 1957 Representative' [...]
In a reverse-dowry, my husband promised health insurance if I married him. It was a creative proposal, it made the engagement unique, and I took him up on it.
Up to that point, I hadn’t given much thought to health insurance. It wasn’t that I couldn’t afford health insurance; I just [...]
