On The Record (with daily recap)
GAO: The Federal Government’s Long-Term Fiscal Outlook: Fall 2011 Update GAO: Health Care Price Transparency: Meaningful Price Information Is Difficult for Consumers to Obtain CBO: Trends in the distribution of income Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin provides macro health care chart dump, and is hitting
On The Record (with daily recap)
CDC: Winnable battles, Tobacco Use (many links) Bloomberg law: New & improved SCOTUS blog OMB: Ltr from Jacob Lew to Harry Reid on FEMA/continuing budget resolution AEI: The benefits and limitations of Income Tax reform CBO: Some context for thinking about deficit reduction, federal revenues House B
A Decade Of Health Care Cost Growth Has Wiped Out Real Income Gains For An Average US Family, by David I. Auerbach and Arthur L. Kellermann (Health Affairs) Although a median-income US family of four with employer-based health insurance saw its gross annual income increase from $76,000 in 1999 to $9