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Health Care Reform: How It Will Affect You | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:41:00 -0400

... and copayments, says Len Nichols, director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. ... and more »

Do Obama's Health Care Claims Hold Up? | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:59:00 -0400

"There's not what you'd call a rock solid commitment to changing the incentives," said Len Nichols, health policy program director at the New America ...

US Drones Have al Qaeda On the Run | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:25:00 -0400

... that we just haven't seen up until now," said Nicholas Schmidle, the author of "To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan. ...

Fixing Health Care For Small Businesses | CBSNews.com

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:07:00 -0400

Len Nichols, the director of health policy at the nonpartisan New America Foundation, said an employer mandate would be a rather ineffective and generally unwise way to create "shared responsibility." "Shared responsibility is really about people," he ...

Do Obama's Job Creation Numbers Add Up? | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:33:00 -0400

"There's no way that an economist, no matter how good, can say, 'This stimulus package created this many jobs,'" said Maya MacGuineas, an economist and president of the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. "It's just a jump that you ...

Same-Sex Marriage Legalization Inevitable? | CBS

Cecille Isidro — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:19:00 -0400

"Even if public opinion keeps moving in the direction, it's sort of slowing-moving," says Joe Matthews of the New America Foundation. "It's not something that's going to happen in a couple of years. It's gonna take 10 years or 20 years before you see broad recognition of same-sex marriage." Original article

Orrin Hatch, Teddy's Bear | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:23:00 -0400

"We reached out to many people, and I suddenly heard that Hatch's office wanted to talk," says Len Nichols, a former Clinton health reform staffer and key Democratic proponent of the bipartisan reform effort. "They weren't going to give me an hour ...

So What's A Toxic Asset? | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:40:00 -0400

"Toxic assets are the ones that nobody wants to touch because they're just considered too dangerous," Doug Rediker, of New America Foundation, told CBS News. Normally banks can sell their healthy assets, such as a borrower's timely paid mortgage, ...

A Plan To Purge Banks' Toxic Assets | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:01:00 -0400

"It's generally complex securities that are simply so complicated that nobody really knows what they're worth," says Doug Rediker, of the New America Foundation. The government is calling it the "public-private" investment program. ...

Loan Charity's High-Flying Guests Exposed | CBS News

Cecille Isidro — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:37:00 -0500

Watchdog Stephen Burd says money spent on the jet comes off the backs of students, who have Educap loans costing up to three times more than government loans...