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This video, provided by Click.TV, takes the SOTU address and inserts fact-checks. Amazingly, it was online less than three-hours after the President concluded. But it should be done as either pop-up video or MST3K.
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Several politcal reporters have joined this startup online politics journalism site.
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Brad DeLong summarized a PDF from the the Tax Policy Center, stating that the plan, based on what is known, mainly helps those who don’t really need the help.
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A periodic chart of ways to visualize data.
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“A new Economic Policy Institute report claim there is “a widening gap between the ways that everyday Americans and influential elites talk about the economy.”"
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“Dropping the “ic†from the word “Democratic†may seem insignificant, but it was almost certainly a deliberate move by Bush, who has used the phrase “the Democrat Party†for months as a way of needling his opponents.”
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“The intent here is clear: To incentivize the purchase of low-quality, high-deductible care, particularly among the healthy, young, and/or rich. To degrade the risk pool, and encourage HSAs. To reduce coverage, costs, and health security.”
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Ideology drives this conservative fetish: “What conservatives in the “consumer-directed” health movement believe, however, is that the big problem is “moral hazard” – people consume too much medical care, because someone else pays for it.”
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“Economists have long suggested that tax subsidies lead to excessive use of employer-provided health insurance. This proposal would help fix that problem, while giving a helping hand to the uninsured.”
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“In the short run the plan gives more coverage to the people who need it most, while avoiding the mistakes of recent state-level plans. That doesn’t sound so bad.”
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“Even so, am I wrong in thinking that this is a giveaway to the insurance industry? In what way do individuals have any bargaining power in the market?”
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“Here, easy-to-use, simple calculators are created and presented to do math related to current events, in addition to more traditional analysis.”
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View your data, ask questions, and share your discoveries. Harness the collective intelligence of the net for insight and analysis.
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A Sampir-Simpson or Richter scale for the Apocalypse.
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A roundup of SOTU mashups and the web.
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Best news I heard all day.
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Via BoingBoing.
Tags: Boston Globe, Brad DeLong, Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal, Democrat Party, Economic Policy Institute, employer-provided health insurance, Ezra Klein, Greg Mankiw, healthcare, insurance industry, Paul Krugman, startup online politics journalism site, Sunlight Foundation, Tax Policy Center
