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Private health insurance plans were supposed to control costs and improve the quality of care delivered to millions of elderly Americans under Medicare.
But that’s not the way things have worked out. Three new studies, published last week in…
Janet Napolitano
Partisan critics already are deriding possible cabinet-level appointees that President-elect Barack Obama is vetting as recycled Democratic politicos from the President Clinton administration.
One apparent appointee _ Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security secretary as cable news station CNN…
Robert Cohen | Post-Dispatch
The tentacles of a deeply troubled global economy seem to find new territory every day as reports of the decline spread across all corners.
Our collective psyche is being inured from the daily parade of gloomy economic news: from 53,000…
Hillary Clinton
Sources say President-elect Barack Obama asked Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state. The job offer probably has her calculating the benefits to her of accepting such a position. Among those benefits probably is an offer from Obama to help…
Every new president tries to emulate Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous “100 Days” strategy of 1933 with a blitz of new initiatives, but Barack Obama is so special he’ll need only 83.
Based on in-depth research — via right-wing websites — here’s Obama’s…
America is struggling with the worst economic crisis of a generation. Even before he takes office, President-elect Barack Obama is besieged with advice about what he should do — and which of his campaign promises he should forgo — to…
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The nation is just past a historic and divisive election presidential campaign yet the predictable partisan chatter has fully blossomed.
The beltway jockeying between the parties quickly took root - more than two months before Inauguration Day. So who cares and what’s new? Birds still…
