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1 By Matt Chaban 1/04 1:14pm

It Takes a Village

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N.Y.U. Gets Healthy

The Village, Brooklyn, Now the East Side: N.Y.U. Unveils New Health Ed. Complex

N.Y.U has been rather busy of late. The school is still vying to get its Downtown Brooklyn tech campus approved by the Bloomberg administration and yesterday its hulking Greenwich Village expansion was certified by the City Planning Commission, meaning months of acrimonious NIMBYing are ahead.

As if that were not enough, the school has just released designs for a new dentistry school at 433 First Avenue, the latest addition to its healthcare campus on the Middle East Side. Read More

By Steve Kornacki 12/10/09 3:10pm

That Grand Health Care Compromise? Jerry Nadler Has His Doubts

All year, the biggest fault line in the health care debate has been the public option—a proposed government-run insurance plan that Americans without access to group coverage would be eligible to sign up for.

To liberals, it has been the reason for doing health care reform, an innovative tool that will break up private insurers’ monopolies Read More

By Staff 12/10/09 3:10pm

That Grand Health Care Compromise? Jerry Nadler Has His Doubts

All year, the biggest fault line in the health care debate has been the public option—a proposed government-run insurance plan that Americans without access to group coverage would be eligible to sign up for.

To liberals, it has been the reason for doing health care reform, an innovative tool that will break up private insurers’ Read More

By Joe Conason 11/10/09 5:10pm

The War on Facts

Within hours after the House of Representatives approved health care reform by a narrow margin, Republicans predicted retribution at the polls next fall. They promised to make every Democrat regret that historic vote as the first step toward the reversal of power in Washington. And as the current debate has proved, they aren’t going to Read More

By Joe Conason 10/27/09 4:47pm

A Winning Compromise?

The Senate leadership’s decision to include the “public option” in its health care reform legislation seemed almost miraculous, especially to anyone who believed the hundreds of obituaries recited in the media over the past several months. But by acting on their convictions rather than their fears, the Democrats could ultimately find that the politics of Read More

By Steve Kornacki 10/23/09 3:33pm

The Public Option, With a Whimper

The rather surprising news that Harry Reid may now be ready to include a public option in the health care reform bill he will bring to the Senate floor next week has potentially huge short- and long-term political implications.

First, it would resolve the issue of whether Senate Democrats, who have exactly the 60 Read More

By Joe Conason 10/20/09 5:02pm

An Obscene Protest

Popular disgust over the fat premiums that financial executives bestow upon themselves is burgeoning, and rightly so. Those Wall Street piggy banks are filling up with billions upon billions of government-subsidized dollars.

But anyone infuriated by the grossly inflated compensation of the masters of finance should check out the incredible earnings of the top executives Read More

By Steve Kornacki 10/15/09 1:45pm

Does Harry Reid Have the Stomach for This Fight?

Harry Reid should be well suited to the delicate, grueling, and thoroughly thankless task of merging the health care packages passed by the Senate’s two committees of jurisdiction, a process that kicked off with the Finance Committee’s approval of a bill on Tuesday.

The majority leader enjoys the trust and respect of Read More

By Steve Cohen 10/06/09 3:18pm

The Daily Show, Cap and Trade, and Scientific Literacy

Watching Jon Stewart use Capn’ Crunch as the logo for climate cap and trade regulation the other night started me thinking about the need for our society to get more sophisticated about its understanding of economics, policy, and science. My reaction to the pitiful state of our public policy dialogue is what you might expect Read More