Saint Bradley. I'm not sure what's worse -- his apparently sincere belief that congressional Republicans are willing to make a deal on health care, or his apparently sincere belief that "tort reform" would have a non-trivial effect on health care costs. Anyway, it's certainly a...
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Ezra makes a critical point:Paperwork gets lost. HR Departments are busy. People are between jobs for a few months, or they pressed submit but not "save." So they go uninsured.
It's stating the obvious, and yet apparently it needs to be said again and again.
If Obama is proven to have made mistakes when we see what comes out of the World's Worst Deliberative Body, they will have been about his strategy with respect to Congress: being to willing to cave to Blue Dog objections while receiving nothing in return,...
Note to self: Do not ever piss off John Holbo
A majority of Tory MPs "believe the NHS is unsustainable in its present form and want to see the introduction of an insurance system or tax breaks for healthcare fees."Unsustainable,.
There's much to ridicule in Sarah Palin's new Facebook note, not the least of which would be her willingness to claim that her experience as Alaska's governor -- a job she bizarrely vacated less than a month ago -- provided her with unique insight into...
Some back of the envelope calculations:US public health care spending per capita: ~$3200UK public health care spending per capita: ~$2200Difference between US and UK: ~$1000Number of people in United States:.
Apparently, the Canadian health care system also works.
I agree that Kyl and Grassley openly admitting the obvious fact that Republicans will not vote for any Democratic health care proposal seems like a dumb political tactic, which could almost give me a hint of optimism. On the other hand, they may just be...
So horrible it's nearly Nazi.I have spent over a month back in my homeland, watching with piqued interest the ongoing travails of the health care debate. After the 1993-94 debacle.
Yglesias:Nominally at least that means that health reform is now in a legislative dead zone—there aren’t the votes in the House for a bill without a public option and there.