Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview.louis vuitton backpack for sale
Were he still in the Senate, “I would end up voting for it,” he said. “As leader, I would take heat for it. … That’s what leadership is all about.”
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For one thing, he doesn’t think it does nearly enough to bring costs under control. In his view, it does not fundamentally change the incentives that providers now have to provide more care, rather than better care. “There is really nothing to bend the cost curve,” he says.
And Frist also predicts it will extend coverage to only 20 million or so additional Americans–far short of true universal coverage.gucci handbag for sale Given the fiscal constraints, he says a better approach would be to provide a more bare-bones package of benefits, known as “catastrophic coverage.” That less expensive insurance, while not covering as many routine medical services, would be affordable to more people and provide for care should they suffer a serious illness or condition that might otherwise bankrupt them.
However, he strongly supports other aspects of the bill–most notably, its requirement that individuals be required to purchase coverage, if they do not receive health insurance through their employers or under government programs. And he also lauds the provisions that would eliminate practices that allow insurance companies to discriminate against people based on their health history, including pre-existing conditions.handbags louis vuitton
Frist also faults some in his own party for injecting alarmism into the debate. “Clearly, the death panels and public plan arguments have been overblown,” he says. Frist noted that Republicans themselves voted for a Medicare prescription drug bill that would have established a version of a public plan–with the government negotiating directly with drug companies–if private-sector competition had failed to materialize. That is similar to the approach that Republican Senator Olympia Snowe is taking with her amendment to establish a public option with a “trigger.louis vuitton shoes replica”
While Frist believes that the bill will pass, he worries that the Obama Administration and Congress have not given enough attention to what happens next: the implementation. The first few years are likely to be rough, he predicts. States will be struggling to set up new marketplaces for insurance coverage, their medicaid rolls will grow, taxes will go up, and consumers will not yet see the benefits. “The Republicans will go wild,” using the start-up difficulties as a tool for fundraising and for making their case in the next election, Frist says.louis vuitton handbags for sale “In the Congress, nobody’s thinking about that.” His advice for the Obama Administration: “Stay nimble,” and be prepared to make adjustments as difficulties arise.
UPDATE: Our friend Jon Cohn has an interesting observation:
For those keeping a tally, that’s three former Republican Senate Majority Leaders who have endorsed the sorts of reforms President Obama and his allies are pushing. Previously, Howard Baker and Bob Dole signed on to a plan they negotiated with Tom Daschle and George Mitchell, former Democratic counterparts, through the auspices of the Bipartisan Policy Center.louis vuitton speedy
And this is as it should be. For all of the crazy talk about a radical government takeover, health care reform 2009 is an amalgam of compromises, many based on ideas taken straight from former Republican proposals–the kind of proposal, in other words, at least a few Republicans should be able to embrace in good faith.
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But what was more striking, in its own way, was this op-ed yesterday by Louisana Governor Bobby Jindal, making what the headline described as a “conservative case” for health reform. Why? Because much of what Jindal calls for is in the legislation, as Washington and Lee University Law Professor Timothy Stoltzfus Jost notes here.louis vuitton backpack for sale
And in the San Francisco Chronicle, Carolyn Lochhead points out that Jindal’s deeper critique is with his own party:
Today Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal stepped up his calls for Republicans to join the health care debate. Does anyone notice this this is an admission that his party has been AWOL? Jindal says there’s no way the Democratic bill can pass, but after Democrats give up on their “grand experiment,” he says, “Republicans have to join the battle of ideas.”
This is not the first conservative criticism that Republicans have lost their intellectual moorings.replica louis vuitton Jindal offers several ideas tracking these suggestions from Joseph Antos at the American Enterprise Institute: promote better competition among insurers and providers; promote informed consumer choice and accountability; cap the tax exclusion; replace Medicare administered pricing with competitive bidding, and cap malpractice awards.
Consensus is forming around two ideas: Democrats are not doing enough to lower costs (a little-noticed Goldman Sachs research paper said what other experts have been warning: rising health care costs will outstrip the tax revenues Democrats are counting on to pay for expanding care unless actual delivery reforms are enacted too); and the status quo is unsustainable.
Sounds like grounds for compromise.
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*My gratitude to commenter Destor23 for that correction.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement urging the passage of health care reform at the national level:
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If the job itself was a thrill, the 2008 campaign was a dream for a lifelong politics nerd. I grinned like a candidate in a rope-line every time I reminded myself that I was covering the election for TIME–first as an editor and later as a writer–even if it meant going back to work three days after my wedding.handbags louis vuitton (Like Hillary Clinton, we made the grave miscalculation that the Democratic nomination would be sorted out around Super Tuesday.)
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“When it comes to fixing what’s wrong with No Child Left Behind, we’ve offered every state the same deal,” Obama said in a speech at the White House. “We’ve said, if you’re willing to set higher, more honest standards than the ones that were set by No Child Left Behind, then we’re going to give you the flexibility to meet those standards.”
The ??more honest?? standards Obama referred to are the education reforms his Administration prefers.fake louis vuitton shoes In order to receive a waiver, states had to agree to adopt “college and career ready” standards, including the Common Core, a set of curriculum standards that have already been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. The states also had to develop new systems for evaluating teachers and principals, and come up with aggressive plans to turn around low-performing schools.
(MORE:?Perspectives on No Child Left Behind, 10 Years After Its Signing)
Ten of the 11 states that applied for waivers in the first round were successful. Applications from Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee were approved, while New Mexico??s was not.cheap gucci belts In a call with reporters following the announcement, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said they were continuing to work with New Mexico to improve its application and that the state could be granted a waiver in a matter of weeks.
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Ten years later, the chorus of those who say it didn’t work??that the law is broken??has grown to a cacophony. The waivers are essentially the Obama Administration’s way of giving states another crack at it. If the feds couldn’t fix education, maybe the states can. Now that 10 of them have waivers ?? and with another 28 states (plus D.louis vuitton backpack for saleC. and Puerto Rico) set to apply on Feb. 21 ?? we??ll soon find out if they are up to the challenge.
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On a conference call with reporters, senior Administration officials pointedly called the change an ??accommodation,?? not a compromise, and said that the new policy had actually been in the works for a long time. This seems unlikely, given that this more nuanced contraception setup has been floating around in policy circles for months and the Administration opted to initially present a more stringent set of insurance guidelines for religious organizations.louis vuitton handbags for sale
(MORE: Conflict Over Obama’s Contraception Rule Intensifies)
The time lapse between the initial policy and its new and improved version allowed a major political storm to develop. Despite the best efforts of Catholic power players in the Obama Administration, the President appears to have made his original decision based on women??s rights, but also on politics. As I and others have previously written, it seemed ?? on paper ?? that requiring large Catholic institutions to provide free contraception to employees would be a net political positive. By a fairly thin margin, U.louis vuitton neverfullS. Catholics agree with the President’s position; an even larger margin of support than among women.
But the upheaval over free contraception may well end up being a net negative for the President because it fed into an already existing narrative that Obama is shoving the Affordable Care Act down Americans?? throat. Case in point ?? the impending Supreme Court fight over the individual mandate, which is one of the most easily demonized government policies in history.replica gucci shoes Despite its economic merits and success elsewhere (Massachusetts), the very word ??mandate?? evokes a bossy, inflexible federal government, not to mention that the individual mandate would require Americans to spend their own money on a product they might not even want. This dynamic was even more pronounced as the Catholic institutions moved to battle the contraception ruling; not only did these organization not want to buy the product (contraception), but it went against the tenets of their faith to do so.
Much of this controversy could have been avoided, if the White House had sought to broker a compromise from the very beginning. As Amy Sullivan pointed out on Swampland back in November 2011:
What could the Obama administration have done differently? For starters, it seems clear that any religious exemption was going to be met with fierce resistance from abortion rights organizations.louis vuitton backpack for sale Given that reality, HHS could have gonewith a broader definition of religious employers it is considering??one used by the IRS that includes organizations whose employees aren??t necessarily all members of the same faith. After all, even with the religious exemption, the HHS mandate represents the biggest expansion of contraception coverage in American history. That??s a fairly strong case for the White House to make withpro-choice groups.
HHS could also have taken up a solution suggested by Melissa Rogers, a professor at Wake Forest University Divinity School and a former member of the White House Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.louis vuitton backpack for sale As Rogers has written, some states like Hawaii and New York require insurance companies to ??allow enrollees in a health plan of an objecting religious employer to purchase coverage of contraceptive services directly and to do so at a cost that does not exceed?? what they would have paid under a plan through a non-objecting employer.
One aspect of the new policy as yet unaddressed by the Administration is what would happen in the case of a large religious organization that is self-insured ?? as many Fortune 500 companies are. For an institutions like this, insurance companies like Cigna or UnitedHealthcare are merely claims processing paperwork pushers, with the institution actually holding premium dollars and paying for health services. Would these organizations ?? via their claims processor ?? have to reach out to female employees and offer birth control pills?
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The Roman forum was a reminder??and the birth control clash is turning out to be one as well ?? of just how much influence the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has lost in the 10 years since the abuse crisis erupted in America.fake louis vuitton shoes It hopes that its protest of a new federal rule requiring religiously affiliated institutions like Catholic hospitals and universities to provide no-cost contraception in their health insurance coverage, even if church doctrine forbids birth control, will help restore the bishops?? relevance. They did win a partial victory last Friday when Obama, acknowledging the uproar, said those institutions would no longer have to pay for the contraception coverage themselves. But the President did not fully genuflect: The compromise will still oblige religious-based employers to offer the coverage, while their insurance providers foot the bill.
(MORE: Mired in the Sticky Politics of Health and Faith, Obama Shifts on Contraception)
Although major Catholic groups like Catholic Charities and the Catholic Health Association accepted that revision, the bishops are holding out for more.loui vuitton But their crusade to be exempted from the mandate is likely to fall short of its grail. If so, it??s because Obama read the Catholic flock better than its shepherds did.
Granted, the bishops, led by New York Archbishop and Cardinal-elect Timothy Dolan, did get the White House to acknowledge how high-handedly and ham-handedly it had managed the contraception debate??confirming along the way the public??s wariness of the so-called liberal elite??and convinced it to craft a deal that should have been policy in the first place. Yet in his refusal to cave completely to the religious liberty campaign, Obama has illustrated the reality that the bishops no longer speak for most U.ugg boots outletS. Catholics??the nation??s largest religious denomination and a critical swing-voter group??on a host of moral issues, according to polls.
Not on abortion or the death penalty (a majority of Catholics believe those should remain legal); on divorce or homosexuality (most say those are acceptable); on women being ordained as priests and priests getting married (ditto); or on masturbation and pre-marital sex (ditto again, Your Excellencies).
(MORE: Conflict Over Obama’s Contraception Rule Intensifies)
And especially not on contraception.ugg boots outlet Ever since Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church??s senseless ban on birth control in 1968, few doctrines have been as vilified, ridiculed and outright ignored by Catholics ?? evidenced by a recent study showing that 98% of American Catholic women have used some form of contraception. It??s hard to believe, as the bishops would have it, that those women simply succumbed to society??s pressure to do the secular thing. They??ve decided, in keeping with their faith??s precept of exercising personal conscience, that family planning is the moral and societally responsible thing to do??for example, preventing unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions. And it explains why a recent Public Religion Research Institute poll found most Catholics support the contraception coverage mandate even for Catholic-affiliated organizations.fake chanel shoes Presumably most endorse Friday??s compromise.
Far more Evangelical Protestants, according to the PRRI survey, back the bishops than Catholics do. But that hardly makes the bishops, when it comes to the more independent Catholic vote, the same force to be reckoned with that they were in the 20th century. That is, before 2002 and the horror stories of how prelates like Cardinal Bernard Law, then Boston??s archbishop, had serially shielded alleged pedophile priests.chanel handbags for sale It??s true that some bishops, like Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl, confronted rather than coddled accused priests. But when it became clear that so many of the men in miters cared more about safeguarding the clerical corporation than about protecting kids, episcopal ??authority?? vanished like so much incense smoke??and Catholics increasingly abandoned the 2,000-year-old notion that their church and their religion are the same thing.
(MORE: Obama vs. the Church)
That??s essentially what Catholics like me are asking for, especially from my colleagues in the media, during episodes like the contraception and religious liberty fracas: Stop equating what the bishops say with what we think, because we??re not the obedient, monolithic bloc that newspapers and cable news networks so tiresomely insist is in “jeopardy” for this or that party whenever they smell church-state friction.fake louis vuitton When a hardline U.S. bishop calls for withholding communion from a Catholic politician who supports legalized abortion, stop assuming all Catholics have the prelate??s back rather than the pol??s. When Catholic politicians draft legislation like the religious liberty bills popping up on Capitol Hill right now, stop accepting their assertion that the birth-control ban is ??a major tenet?? of Catholic faith, as Florida Senator Marco Rubio called it this month.replica louis vuitton For the vast majority of Catholics, it isn??t.
And for that matter, stop forgetting that in the 2008 election, 54% of Catholic voters ignored their bishops and backed a pro-choice presidential candidate like Obama. I certainly don??t point that out as some kind of endorsement of Obama in 2012. I??m simply noting that pundits and politicians need smarter criteria for gauging the Catholic vote??just as advisers in Obama??s White House shouldn??t have been so clueless about religious issues when they first decreed the contraception mandate.ugg boots outlet If the tragedy of the 2002 abuse crisis reminds us of anything, it??s that religion does matter in politics. Just ask the church leaders who are still paying a political price for their religious code of silence.
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Romney’s trouble came, as always, when he had to talk about himself. He had trouble with his taxes, yet again. And now that we’ve seen the returns, the old Dorothy Parker line comes to mind: “The first million dollars is hard work, the next million is inevitable.cheap gucci belts” Romney’s $20 million annual income represents a less than 10% return on a fortune of upwards of $200 million. He has become a poster-child for unfairness of the 15% capital gains rate, at least for those over a certain income. The argument is that a lower capital gains rate encourages investment. This might be true in some cases, but what else is a fellow like Romney going to do with his fortune–hide it under his mattress? ?Indeed, Romney tacitly acknowledges the unfairness of the current system by limiting the capital gains tax reductions in his economic plan to those with incomes less than $250,000.louis vuitton neverfull
Romney also had trouble answering Williams’ question about what he’d done to build the conservative movement. “I had a family,” he said, gears clearly spinning. “I built a business…” Eventually, he got around to his record as governor of Massachusetts–which most conservatives see as not very. Gingrich’s response–that he worked 20 years to build a Republican majority in the house–was far more convincing and had the virtue of being accurate…and the additional virtue of discipline: he didn’t use the opportunity to go after Romney.replica gucci shoes He didn’t need to. Which was, in the end, the real story of this debate: Gingrich is showing signs of being an official grownup. If he can sustain such demeanor, he may actually be able to win the nomination.
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Where does that money go? In addition to donating to his family’s Tyler Foundation, Romney does his duty as an active LDS member. The Mormon church requires its members to tithe 10% of their income, and Romney’s contributions match that responsibility.fake uggs
(PHOTOS: The Rich History of Mitt Romney)
Designed to follow the biblical mandate to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, the Mormon tithing system supports a giant welfare infrastructure. In addition to financing temple construction and missionary programs, tithing supports more than 300 employment-resource centers and 80 family-services offices around the world. The church employs some 8,500 missionaries who teach English, give agricultural aid, provide medical practices and distribute clothing. It even stores a three-to-six-month food supply so its members won??t go hungry in the event of a disaster, and most families forgo two consecutive meals a month to give money as a ??fast offering?? for the poor.gucci outlet online Local bishops ?? a position Romney once held ?? work with members of their local church wards to overcome economic hardships, and are?even empowered to pay a family’s mortgage in the hardest of times.
Structured or not, these donations set Romney apart from his political colleagues. In 2010, Romney gave away 16% of his income while Newt Gingrich’s returns show he gave only 2.6%.gucci outlet online The portion Gingrich donated to his Washington, D.C., home church, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, was even smaller ?? 0.3%, or $9,540.cheap gucci belts Because the Gingrichs’ also reported an earned income of $5,918 from the National Shrine ?? Callista sings as an alto in the church??s professional choir, which pays $80 per mass and rehearsal ?? so the net balance of their contributions sinks below $4,000.?The rest of Gingrich??s charitable donations went to unspecified cash contributions through the Gingrichs’ businesses, some $68,500, and to miscellaneous donations, near $3,100. The Obamas, meanwhile, gave 14% of their income to a total of 36 different charities in 2010. Much of that went to the Fisher House Foundation, a charity that works with veterans, and smaller amounts went to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund and the Boys & Girls Club of America.loui vuitton A religious body was not listed on their returns, but the Obamas have not become members of a church while living in Washington.
(VIDEO: Romney’s Tax Returns: Explainer)
In Monday’s debate, Romney said he is ??proud of the fact that I pay a lot of taxes.?? Though he’s at times reluctant to speak publicly about his Mormon faith, his charitable giving, half of which goes to the socially active LDS church, is something to be proud of as well.
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Obama called for those making a gross income of more $1 million a year to pay a minimum rate of 30%, enumerating a policy principle for the so-called “Buffett rule,” which was named for the billionaire Omaha investor who famously complained that he pays a lower rate than his secretary. The proposal, which has a slim chance of making it through a divided Congress, would predominantly affect those who currently pay a 15% rate on investment earnings, and would also deny mega-earners any targeted tax breaks or credits.
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In addition to once again proposing alternative energy tax credits, Obama put a renewed focus on natural gas and domestic manufacturing. He proposed subsidies for manufacturers willing to open plants in hard-hit communities, as well as a new tax on overseas profits. He worked in paeans to immigrations reform, a new housing refinancing program to be funded by a fee on large banks, and restrictions on congressional lobbying and trading. As with other policy initiatives put before a joint session of Congress in the last two years, these proposals will likely have more life in Executive Branch whitepapers than in committee rooms on Capitol Hill.louis vuitton neverfull
(PHOTOS:?Obama??s State of the Union in Pictures)
Not everything Obama spoke about required congressional action. In a potential effort to sew up liberal dissent on a looming mortgage fraud settlement between state attorneys general, the federal government and the banks, Obama announced the creation of new law enforcement unit tasked with investigating securitization fraud, headed by New York AG Eric Schnereiderman, who broke from the settlement talks last year over a disagreement about potential immunity for banks in that matter. If the commission seemed like a political gesture, it was one of many in the speech.
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(PHOTOS:?History of Special Guests at the State of the Union)
The plights or triumphs of swing states were ubiquitous, and Obama pledged to rejuvenate industry in “Cleveland [Ohio, 18 electoral votes] and Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania, 20 electoral votes] and Raleigh [North Carolina, 15 electoral votes].” Orlando, Louisville, Charlotte, Toledo and Chicago all got mentions too, but none as many as Detroit.louis vuitton speedy His decision to bailout auto companies was implicitly celebrated in a long section of the speech dedicated to their subsequent rejuvenation. “We bet on American workers. We bet on American ingenuity,” he said. “And tonight, the American auto industry is back.louis vuitton replica”
The speech was also bookended by a narrative on the power of cooperation evident in the U.S. military. In Obama’s telling, this collaborative spirit, a model for the nation, led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, which just happens to be his crowning foreign policy achievement.gucci handbag for sale Romney, who has accused Obama of being an apologist overseas and declinist at home, was again the ghost in the room when Obama said, “Anyone who tells you America is in decline or our influence has waned doesn’t know what they are talking about.”
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