Tucked inside the economic bailout approved last week by Congress is a provision that will improve mental health care for millions of Americans. It’s long overdue.
Beginning in January, health insurance companies must offer equal coverage for mental and physical illness.…
Premiums for stand-alone Medicare prescription drug plans in Missouri and Illinois will jump by an average of 18 percent next year.
In Missouri, that means average monthly premiums will rise to a little more than $48 per month from the current…
Seldom, if ever, has the American economy gone through a week like the one just passed.
It began with a $1.2 trillion loss on Wall Street as stocks dropped 8 percent in a single day. It ended with Congress passing and President…
To most of us, energy policy means figuring out how much $4-a-gallon gas to put in the tank and still have money left over to buy school clothes for the kids. It means paying higher prices for just about everything,…
The federal government, already pumping cheap money into the banking industry to prevent a credit collapse and poised to recapitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by as much as $50 billion to get mortgages flowing, is about to be tapped…
On the campaign trail and during their convention, Republicans have touted private enterprise as the solution to America’s health care crisis — despite evidence that within the government’s Medicare program, private enterprise is causing more problems than it’s solving.
Exhibit A…
U.S. Representative and Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO 7th) came in to have a chat with the Post-Dispatch editorial board today, discussing a wide range of election-year issues ranging from energy to health care to his take on the presidential race.
Energy
Most…
It would be tempting to view the recent stories about the suicide of Army biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins — who was about to be indicted by the FBI for the 2001 anthrax attacks — as long-overdue “closure” to the situation.…
In April, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) co-sponsored a resolution (H.R. 5843) to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams of marijuana. (There are actually now six other co-sponsors, including our own William…
Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan group dedicated to providing voters with basic information on issues and candidate’s positions for all elective offices from the president down to the state legislature.
They also send out a “Political Courage Test” to all candidates, which…
Our friend Jason Rosenbaum at the Columbia Tribune reports that Democratic Congressional candidate Judy Baker has gotten herself into a little trouble over socialized health care — but not the kind you probably expect.
It seems Ms. Baker has been talking u
