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I hope our moderate legislators are not taken in, or pretend to be, by some of the amendments that are being offered which appear to resolve disputes. ... Home » Categories » News » Current Events » The Sneaky Amendments To Healthcare Bill For Fungible Funds » Reprint Rights » Printer Friendly;
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In my column last week about media coverage of health care reform and abortion, I pointed out some flaws with arguments by Chris Matthews and others that money is fungible, so any government funds that go to any insurance company that also provides abortion coverage constitutes federal funding for abortion.
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Fungibility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fungibility is the property of a good or a commodity whose individual units are capable of mutual substitution. Examples of highly fungible commodities are crude oil, wheat, orange juice, precious me...
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I was in high school when I learned that "fungible" was a concept in economics, not something that could give rise to a fungus infection. ... The fungibility of funds meant that the taxpayers were indirectly but actually subsidizing a refusal to comply with civil rights laws. Flash forward to the current debate over...
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Now, while Planned Parenthood uses the Komen funds "only" for mammograms, the money PP receives from Komen helps keep the lights on, and that only helps keep the money pouring ... And the more fungible money PP has, the more resources it has to open new abortion clinics in areas like Aurora, Illinois and Denver, Colorado.
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In other words, funds should be fungible across spending categories. In practice, governments often do not behave in this way. ... If an interest group exerts effort to procure funds for a particular purpose, it expects that the government will spend the funds for that purpose. The government has incentives to...
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James Deitrick and Michael Granof have a modest proposal: they want to make banks account for the use of their TARP and TARP II funds in the same way that nonprofits must account for their funds -- ... Money is fungible, they argue, and therefore they cannot readily distinguish between outlays of their own resources and...
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