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Find textbooks at Alibris!

NOTE: Overstock bests Amazon's prices and is "blue."

THE BOOKS WITH "BUZZ":
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy tells his extraordinary personal story:

True Compass: A Memoir
by Edward M. Kennedy.

Read Barack Obama's vision for America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama

Boran2 and maryb2004 recommend:

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
by Jasper Fforde

Must-have information for all presidents-and citizens-of the twenty-first century?

Physics for Future Presidents: The Science behind the Headlines
Richard A. Muller

rae recommends:

Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
by Morris Berman.

On BooMan’s shelf:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This looks interesting:

Adventure Divas
by Holly Morris

Here’s a good one from
Elizabeth Gilbert:

Eat Pray Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

"Crash" * Best Motion Picture, Academy Awards * Only $11.79 at Overstock * 2006 SAG Winner, Best Ensemble

Check out
Powell's new section:
NEW FAVORITES

Selected new arrivals at 30% off

Recommended by Indianadem and ejmw:
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Wellstone

From northcountry’s bookshelf:

The New Golden Age:
The Coming Revolution Against
Political Corruption and Economic Chaos
by Ravi Batra

A novel about contractors in Iraq from the woman that runs The Spy That Billed Me:

Outsourced: A Novel
from RJ Hillhouse.


Great Deals
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Find mystery novels by Nancy Pickard ("Kansas")



Challenging Empire: How People, Governments, and the UN Defy US Power by Phyllis Bennis (interviewed on DN!)


Featured by Keith Olbermann, New (Powell's Sale): Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum (whose other books merit serious consideration)


"Explosive" State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration
by James Risen


The book the CIA doesn't want you to read: Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander
Larry Johnson's review


BT's all-time best seller:

PERMACULTURE:
A Designers' Manual

$79.95 * Sale: $59.95


Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History (Third Edition)


The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!


The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan


Green Press Initiative
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Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists by Eleanor Mills * NYT review


Bury Me Standing: the Gypsies & Their Journey


1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus



Brokeback Mountain
by Annie Proulx
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"At The Movies"


Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World by Noam Chomsky (Power & Terror: Post 9-11 Talks)


The Price of Privilege:

How Parental Pressure and
Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of
Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine


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We listened to PEN American Center's "State of Emergency" and found 1940s books by Curzio Malaparte only at Alibris. (Selection (MP3) excerpted from "The Skin.")

Alibris - Books You Thought You'd Never Find
Banned Books * Are you a fan of Film Noir, Art House, Documentaries or Hong Kong Action? * Searching for a long-lost children's book or a first printing of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue on vinyl? Find it at Alibris!

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The exchange is the time-sucker.  You have to create from scratch a web capability for 100+ million families to choose insurance plans from how many offered by the private insurance companies.  You have to incorporate into this for the public plan, software either leveraged of the Medicare processing systems (which btw have private insurance companies as contractors for operating them) or create new software from scratch.

You have to decide what information insurance plans (including the public one) must submit in order for folks to make apples-to-apples comparisons in the exchange.  You must actually get that information from insurers and the public plan staff (who are all new to this) the information to load into the IT system.  And you must get it loaded, either by insurers directly over the web or by data entry staff (yes, they still exist).

You have to set up regulations, auditing procedures, an auditing staff and so on.

Ironically for HR 676 (and a I agree with the BooMan's snowballs-chance-in-hell probabilities for passage of the Weiner Amendment) would be much simpler to implement because it could leverage more of existing Medicare procedures and systems.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

by TarheelDem on Fri Sep 25th, 2009 at 03:44:35 PM EST
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what you've rather succinctly described is the milquetoast version of the public option that we're supposed to believe is the best they can do.

it didn't have to be that difficult, imo. by taking single payer off the table at the start, the process was gamed to the advantage of the corporate players.

the sausage making we're witnessing now is going to result in a bill that's nowhere near what it could have been had it been included and given a place at the table.

the revolution will not be televised...

by dada on Fri Sep 25th, 2009 at 04:03:04 PM EST
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I actually made the point about single payer (HR 676) at the end.

Anything with an exchange takes time.

The actual milquetoast version of the public option is state exchanges with no public plan and a demonstration CO-OP program. (Hello, Kent Conrad)

With a low probability for single-payer, given the actions of Max Baucus and Mike Ross as purveyors of United Healthcare's wishes, the least bad version is a strong public plan in a well-run exchange.  The exchange provides the market; the public plan provides the choice.  That is also the least complicated to implement among the plans in the legislation.  

Read the Baucus chairman's mark for the most complicated to implement -- states, state insurance commissioners, enabling state legislation, state regulation, National Association of Insurance Commissioners drafting of model regulations,.... It's a bureaucratic zoo.  Or a plan designed to fail quickly.

50 states, 210 media market, 435 Congressional Districts, 3080 counties, 192,480 precincts

by TarheelDem on Fri Sep 25th, 2009 at 04:51:58 PM EST
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