Obama on Health Care: ‘We Are Going to Get This Done’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 18, 2009 Despite rumblings from detractors on both sides of the aisle, President Barack Obama held his ground as he held forth about health care reform in a speech at the White House on Friday afternoon, declaring that he was "absolutely convinced" that substantial changes to the system will be made this year. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Senate Reworks Health Care Proposal

Staff / Truthdig Jul 2, 2009 Let's see if this one takes. After critics blasted an earlier, more expensive version, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee took another crack at a plan to provide coverage for tens of millions of Americans without health insurance. The latest plan, released Thursday, comes at the lower cost of $611.4 billion, as opposed to the $1 trillion proposal that didn't go over so well last month. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Surprise! Paulson Sneaked $150B Bank ‘Windfall’ Into Bailout

Staff / Truthdig Nov 11, 2008 Perhaps we should be more surprised than we are by the news that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his DOT crew managed to sneak a handful of sentences into the approved bailout bill that amounted to a $150-billion "quiet windfall" for American banks, as The Washington Post put it. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )