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Category Archives: Health Care

The reality of health care reform

One of my son’s college friends, who we see each summer in Vermont,writes about the reality of health care reform for those who really need it. He’s a cancer survivor, still quite young, whose life choices have been severely restricted by his ability or lack of ability to get health care. The bill isn’t perfect, […]

Dear Comrade Obama

Heil Obama! Thank you glorious leader for bringing socialism and/or communism and/or fascism and/or totalitarianism to our country. I always knew that making health insurance slightly easier to get, slightly more affordable, and slightly more fair would bring us to a new era, freeing us from the shackles of capitalism and freedom. The day we […]

Democrats opt to tax their base

Firedoglake has engaged in a sometimes hostile opposition from the left to the Obama Administration. At times it has been a bit over the top, but sometimes they get things exactly right. We are all, perhaps, getting a bit weary about even thinking about health care, which is just what the lobbyists want, so they […]

A health care rant

I’m sure I’m not alone in this. I receive emails from a guy named Mitch Stewart, of Obama’s “Organizing for America” organization pretty much every day. Today I’m being urged to contact my Senators (rich irony on that one) to support health care reform because insurance lobbyists are desperate to pull apart the bill and […]

Take two Our Fathers and see me in the morning

In an oddly named article (To a Divisive Debate, Now Add Religion ) the Times relates that the Christian Scientists have now gotten into the act on health care. I say the article is oddly named, because of I’m not mistaken, religion has been dividing the debate on health care for months now, with the […]

Another Fun Fact about Health Care

Those opposing health care are always telling us we have the best health care in the world, but, aside from your occasional Shah, how many people exile themselves from their native land to get the benefits of that system? Just another example of the Daily Show being more incisive than what passes for television journalism […]

Dismal Science on a Dismal Sunday

This morning, Gregory Mankiw, one of the economists who got us into this mess and a shill for conservative economic theories, pens a New York Times op-ed piece in which he laments the tax disincetives to work supposedly embedded in the Obama Health Plan. (We are supposed to ignore the fact that the Rube Goldberg […]

Better late than never

From the Hill, via Washington Monthly: Say hello to “Medicare Part E” — as in, “Medicare for Everyone.” House Democrats are looking at re-branding the public health insurance option as Medicare, an established government healthcare program that is better known than the public option. The strategy could benefit Democrats struggling to bridge the gap between […]

Rogue Fox Anchor supports Public Option.

Very weird. A Fox News Anchor, albeit Shepard Smith, takes on a Republican Senator over the Public Option. If Obama were this forceful, maybe we’d be in a better place right now.

Extra Fuzzy Math

Not only is Max Baucus’s Health Care Bill a massive subsidy for the insurance companies, it is a massive attack on the poor, almost guaranteed to make the poor poorer in many and sundry ways. Today, Ezra Klein highlights a provision that he, probably justifiably, asserts is the stupidest proposal in the history of man: […]