Where's the CBO Analysis for SIngle Payer? I assume that's why the Senate Chair of the FINANCE Committee refuses to grant Single Payer a seat at the table; because the CBO told them it was a less viable plan. Surely, Maxy Baucus wasn't being led around by his Thurston P Howell III nose to Insurance lobby money. Surely, the Finance Committee Chairman had numbers to back up his actions.
Or maybe it was just fear and flop sweat.
The rest of the diary changes the subject a bit. Forgive me. How much can one say about a report that doesn't exist?
II. It seems whatever you're writing about pops up on Google News if you put the subject in the title. It will show up on Google's first page in the news section.
I suppose that's something to think about when you're composing - the title and how others outside the Kos world view things.
A few of my diaries have been picked up and used on other sites. Which is great. Which means that hundreds if not thousands of others' diaries have been reposted and viewed off site. This realization has led me to reducing the profanity in most of my diaries. Note I said reducing, not removing.
III Citi Raises Taxes
People close to the situation said that Citi, which is about to cede a 34 per cent stake to the US government as part of its latest rescue, had upped rates on between 13m and 15m credit cards it co-brands with retailers such as Sears.
Citi’s rate increases emerged on the day the government proposed legislation to create a new regulator with sweeping powers on consumer protection and a week after the bank was attacked by some politicians for raising employees’ salaries.
Holders of co-branded cards who failed to pay their balance in full at the end of the month saw their rates rise by an average 24 per cent – or nearly 3 percentage points – between January and April, according to a Credit Suisse analysis of data from the consultancy Lightspeed Research.