Count me with Tim Ranzetta — student loan reform was D-E-A-D dead earlier this week, as both Congress and the White House were nervous about losing on the health care bill if student lending was included in reconciliation. But last night, Conrad backtracked from the position he’d expressed only that morning. And today, it was [...]

Michael F. Cannon over at the CATO institute is making a lot of hay about the CBO memo on the minimum medical loss ratio. In the memo where the CBO said it would magically declare any private insurance market with a mandatory MLR of 90%, instead 85%, a government program for budgetary reasons. Cannon has [...]

The CBO has just reached an absurd conclusion that will doom one of the other components in Harry Reid’s grand compromise on the public option. The strange decision on the part of the CBO could force Reid to drop the medical loss ratio of 90 percent. The CBO came to the ridiculous conclusion that requiring [...]