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Daily Archives: July 21st, 2009

Health Care: Canada vs. U.S.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

According to McClatchy, Canadians are much more likely than Americans to say they have access to all the affordable health care they need, but much more likely to gripe about waiting times. The figures are in this graphic below Now this tells us nothing about the actual waiting times, or the actual quality of care. […]

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Great Veto Override

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Congratulations to Representative Betsy Ritter (D-Waterford) (founding member and regular attendee of the SE CT Chapter of Drinking Liberally) and the Democratic Caucus for the override of Rell’s veto of the SustiNet plan for expanding health care access. Betsy has been talking about the bill for months and put a great deal of effort into […]

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Bird Tale

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Maybe there’s someone out there who can explain this. As I mentioned a few days ago, we spent the weekend in Vermont. Yesterday morning, I went out onto the deck of the house where we were staying and there was this little bird, sitting on the deck, who didn’t move a muscle when I approached. […]

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