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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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Pardon my preemptive cynicism, but it's looking more and more like our industry-owned Congress will send President Obama a placebo health bill with no public option and not so much as a hint of discussion of a single-payer plan.
So I'm taking a vote on proposed bill names:
No Profit Left ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Hey Lindsey and Jimbo!
You probably missed this lesson in real leadership and courage on health care, offered by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, so here's a clip for your edification:
Exorbitant Pay for Health Insurance CEOs ...
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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
What if we ran fire departments the way we run the health care system?
For a light look at all of the ridiculous arguments against universal health care, check out all of the videos at HAARM.org (Health Americans Against Reforming Medicine).
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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, 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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