Yesterday’s Congressional vote for H.R.3590 - which will both expand Medicaid and require nearly all Americans to buy health insurance – comes not a moment too soon. Health care reform is crucial to the well-being of our country, and we cannot wait until we have a perfect solution to implement it. Our policymakers have gone [...]

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By Julia Caplan

Just last week (December 11, 2009), Congress passed H.R. 4173, the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (Rep. Frank – Financial Services). The bill would create a Consumer Financial Product Agency (CFPA), a new federal body that would focus solely on the safety of consumer financial products such [...]

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