{"id":392,"date":"2004-03-12T04:16:24","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T08:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=392"},"modified":"2004-03-12T04:16:24","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T08:16:24","slug":"what-im-reading-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"What I’m reading this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Marshall<\/a> links to this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Five months before the November House vote, the government’s chief Medicare actuary had estimated that a similar plan the Senate was considering would cost $551 billion over 10 years. Two months after Congress approved the new benefit, White House Budget Director Joshua Bolten disclosed that he expected it to cost $534 billion. <\/p>\n

Richard S. Foster, the chief actuary for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which produced the $551 billion estimate, told colleagues last June that he would be fired if he revealed numbers relating to the higher estimate to lawmakers. <\/p>\n

“This whole episode which has now gone on for three weeks has been pretty nightmarish,” Foster wrote in an e-mail to some of his colleagues June 26, just before the first congressional vote on the drug bill. “I’m perhaps no longer in grave danger of being fired, but there remains a strong likelihood that I will have to resign in protest of the withholding of important technical information from key policy makers for political reasons.” <\/p>\n

Knight Ridder obtained a copy of the e-mail.<\/p><\/div>\n

Md. Activist Charged With Working for Iraq<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

AntiWar Blog’s tex<\/a> links to Daily Kos<\/a> and the rest of the story.<\/p>\n

Al Giordano on Democracy, Dictatorship, and Definition<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The Black Commentator’s latest on Haiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chomsky Violence Quota Quiz<\/b><\/a> by Richard Oxman.<\/p>\n

What To Do? Violence Reconsidered<\/b><\/a> also by Oxman.<\/p>\n

Reading again: Hideous Dream: A Soldier’s Memoir of the US Invasion of Haiti<\/b><\/a> by Stan Goff.<\/p>\n

A Vanguard Against the Apocalypse<\/b><\/a> & Best of Intentions<\/b><\/a> by Mark Hand.<\/p>\n

Internationals and The Internationale<\/b><\/a> by Mikey Delgado. <\/p>\n

So It’s Al Qaeda After All.<\/b><\/a> by Nikolai.<\/p>\n

“Aging hipster” Max Sawicky on SS<\/a> and fun charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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