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    Health Reform Headlines: Medicaid Support, Vermont's Universal Health Care Bill

    May 27, 2011 09:13 PM EDT

    ... Even so, former President Bill Clinton urged caution in a discussion with NewsHour Senior Correspondent Gwen Ifill at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation-sponsored 2011 Fiscal Summit in Washington, D.C. He advised Democrats against reading the win as an excuse to delay charting plans for Medicare's rapidly rising ...

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    Tuesday's Art Notes

    Apr 19, 2011 02:31 PM EDT

    ... fiscal tragedies. * Chicago’s 25-year-old reggae institution, the Wild Hare, is closing May 15. Owner Zeleke Gessesse will close his legendary club, which hosted Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals and many others, and open a new one in his home country of Ethiopia, via the Chicago Tribune.

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    Health Reform Watch: Insurer Rate Review; Debate Over 'Lie of the Year'

    Dec 24, 2010 07:50 PM EDT

    ... 6 percent since 2007, and federal stimulus funding to pay for some of that expansion will run out June 30. "We're heading for a cliff in July," said Brian Sigritz, director of state fiscal studies at the National Association of State Budget Officers, told Bloomberg. A Christmas-eve Anniversary ...

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    Obama's Deficit Panel Chiefs: 'Staggering' Task Ahead

    Feb 18, 2010 05:00 AM EDT

    ... on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform: Good to be here. JUDY WOODRUFF: Senator Simpson, you told a Montana newspaper this is like being on a suicide mission. Did you really mean that? ALAN SIMPSON: Well, I hate -- it's a dual suicide. I'm taking him with me off the cliff.

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    Shrinking Surplus

    Aug 21, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... omen of things to come. And we think, in fact, the on budget surplus, exclusive of Social Security and Medicare, is probably negative for several fiscal years to come. We're a very tight situation. GWEN IFILL: Let me give Mr. Daniels an opportunity to respond to that, specifically the ...

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    Slow Growth Is Biggest Economic Challenge Facing Incoming President

    Nov 02, 2012 10:02 PM EDT

    ... When the right policies are in place, when we don't have all the short-termism, the temporary stimulus packages or increases in regulation, the fiscal cliffs, when we get a solid policy that's predictable, the economy grows. And when we have tax reform, we get tax rate downs ...

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    4 things to watch as Trump's new travel ban heads to court

    Mar 14, 2017 10:06 PM EDT

    ... ask a judge there early Wednesday to issue an injunction, saying it's illegal to reduce the number of refugees in the middle of a fiscal year. The lawsuit is broader, but the ACLU expects a ruling on that part of the case even if other aspects of the ban ...

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    Obama Focuses on Health Care Law Positives, House GOP Attacks

    Jul 18, 2013 01:35 PM EDT

    ... the delay of the implementation of a relatively small provision within the Affordable Care Act," Carney said. The Washington Post's Ezra Klein and Sarah Kliff, meanwhile, go inside the White House plan to sell the health care law, and find that the operation has its roots in the old ...