Twenty weeks for the administration and the grades are slipping from last week. They keep pressing the health care reform with a town hall forum and the announcement that the administration supports a public alternative to insurance companies. These are both positives. They have issued a report on the savings that could be made with medicare and medicaid. One of the interesting items on the White House Blog is four or five stories from real people throughout the United States who are trying to survive during this economic downturn.
There were a few other anti-poverty measures from last week:
- There were more actions to make government more transparent. They only get a few points for this, because at the same time they were moving to a more open government, the administration decided to fight an attempt to disclose the White House visitor's logs.
- They nominated a HUD Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
- The administration gets points off for releasing those questionable job figures last week. We need a government office that can check statistics released by the government like they have in England.
- The administration did a conference call about possible savings in the Medicaid and Medicare program, but I could not find the results of this call on the site. I know that there are plenty of arguments from the Office of Management and Budget about the crippling costs of health care for the economy.
- Also, last week there was a cabinet meeting and many poverty related issues were discussed.
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