If Krugman wants to create a straw man alternative to Obama Care, he should look at the status quo, not at what Romney may or may not do as President.
Voters are dissatisfied and angry at the status quo, and thus their opinions are swayed frequently based on recent news developments.
The basic conservative criticism here is that the media have underplayed the Gosnell story because its details might undermine support for the abortion status quo, or at least cause people to ask what exactly that status quo is these days.
On Tuesday, a motion by Skye to consider maintaining the status quo at April's annual meeting was rejected.
Some shareholders are so fed up with the status quo at Bayer that this would be an acceptable cost.
It is not -- the status quo at 9.1 percent is not acceptable.
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We should lift the income cap on Social Security and we should continue to work at fixing the healthcare status quo.
But the Democrats' trump card was to present themselves as the embodiment of the status quo at a time when the Californian economy is booming.
What they totally lacked was creativity in developing new financial systems that enhanced the status quo at the time and prevented the catastrophic failure of global monetary system.
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Tsujihara said his relative status as an outsider helped him challenge the status quo at a time when the industry began suffering from the collapse of DVD sales.
As such, rules like the one Schumer seeks would at best maintain the status quo such that risky, "abusive" deals would continue to be assembled away from public exchanges, and at worst the new rule would simply drive these transactions overseas.
Other elements central to the negotiation that would impact middle income earners, mainly the extension of Bush era tax cuts for incomes below the border, patching the alternative minimum tax, and the potential loss in the payroll tax cut, suggest that the economic situation of the middle class as a result of the fiscal reorganization will remain the status quo at best.
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Firstly, a look at those trying to maintain the status quo, and likely to lose the most.
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Clubs will now be asked to officially back the move at a ballot or retain the status quo.
Going up against entrenched interests is never easy, and Castlight has to perform a delicate dance, collaborating with insurers to pry loose the claims data it needs to serve its self-insured customers, while at the same time disrupting the status quo to stake its ground.
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It has taken centuries to create a culture in which exceptionally skilled practitioners of System Two can deliver progress by challenging the status quo without being burned at the stake.
After the jobs report was released last week, some analysts and investors explained that the markets had " already priced in QE 2" and that the policy was necessary at a large scale to keep the status quo.
Over time, he'll most likely start feeling at home, get used to the new status quo, and not want to return to New York.
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At the very core, Jobs was exceptional at asking provocative questions, ones that challenged the status quo, inside Apple and out.
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He was a business leader and an artist all at once, and his fierce opposition to the status quo left us with more beautiful and more functional personal technology.
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The tax gap is a tempting target because Congress needs to book at least some new revenues just to maintain the tax status quo, without adding to the deficit.
Rather, it will seek to defend and perpetuate the status quo, while expanding bureaucratic power and prerogatives at the margin.
In a world that needs every doctor it can find, every educator and politician who is willing to tackle the status quo, these young women offered a glimpse at a brighter future in which all can contribute.
But voters increasingly see Democrats as beholden to teachers' unions and the status quo, says Eric Hanushek, an education expert at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
We're also anticipating at least a few Windows Phone wildcards that could shake up the status quo and make this a three-horse race.
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The interests of the status quo will always have the most vocal and powerful defenders at every level of government.
Consider the status quo: To operate computers, most people peck away at keyboards and use a mouse to scoot a digital pointer across the screen.
He has proved himself over some time now to be a dogged defender of the way things are, of the status quo, when what we need very urgently is someone at the heart of Westminster who will lead a wholesale, radical process of reform.
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