Thursday, July 9th, 2009
I am so tired of hearing opponents of universal access to health care say that we "can't possibly afford it." Folks, we're ALREADY paying for a twisted and inefficient version of universal care.
Former President George W. Bush famously said it himself, "People have access to health care in America. After ...
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Relax, they haven't ordered a hit on you (yet), but they have put a price on your head. The Health Industrial Complex is now spending $1.4 million PER DAY employing 350 lobbyists to maintain monopolistic control over your access to health care.
Limited access to timely health care kills an estimated ...
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
For all you deficit hawks out there, fretting that universal health care coverage would bankrupt the country, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post offers an interesting graph, showing what might happen to our deficit situation, if we adopt european-style health care. The rising line — that's the status quo/GOP + ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
I thought Tom Daschle was a great choice for HHS and for driving Obama's health care agenda, so I was disappointed to hear the news of his tax indiscretions or omissions and his lobbying-by-any-other-name activities, both of which rightfully disqualified him from a position in Obama's administration.
At the same time ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Jack Clark of Blast The Right podcast recently posted a great list of 5 questions that really drive home the difference between government run by conservatives and that of liberals.
1 - Are you happy that one third of the toys sold in the US are contaminated with dangerous chemicals harmful ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Get ready for a health care industry smear campaign against Obama's anticipated health care plan. President-elect Obama was still 21 days away from office when the Big Health commissioned a Wall Street Journal article by industry shill Sally C. Pipes: Obama Will Ration Your Health Care to start sewing a ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
America's still got it.
Yes we can!
Most people know dumb and fake when they see it.
Interviews in slaughter houses - bad idea.
Separating risk and reward - bad idea.
Self-regulating works equally well with money men and toddlers.
Socializing risk and privatizing profit is government only Republicans could love.
Never entrust government to people who ...
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
There's something logically and morally wrong with using a cigarette tax to offset income tax or even to fund an on-going healthcare program. Just stop and think about it for a minute.
Raising South Carolina's cigarette tax might be one way to discourage a stinky, dangerous, and costly addiction, and, in ...
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
"Country First" my ass. Conservative strategy would kill Americans to preserve Republican Party power.
Just when you thought Election 2008 might give us a brief break from cynical politics, we hear the latest stomach-turning plotting from the battered conservative wingers. Michael F. Cannon, writing for Cato @ Liberty spells it out ...
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
REAGANOMICS IS DEAD.
The collapse of U.S. financial markets is as complete a repudiation of so-called "free market" capitalism as the collapse of the Berlin Wall was a repudiation of Soviet-style socialism.
It is plain for the world to see that financial markets self-regulate about as effectively as a room full of ...
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