Yes:Fun fact the media never tells you: as a % of GDP, the US has greater public expenditures on health care than the UK does. Not total expenditures, we know that. Public expenditures. More big government health care in the US than the UK.And even...
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Suzy Khimm offers some thoughts on the presence of LaRouchites along the midways of various health care town halls.The LaRouchies' logic seems virtually indistinguishable from the current right-wing fear-mongering. "Citizens.
It has to be some sort of landmark in American political discourse when both Lee Siegel and Camille Paglia weigh in on American health care policy. Total combined knowledge of.
There's nothing a winger pundit can do to become discredited. Indeed, if your baldfaced lies help torpedo a major progressive initiative, they're actually an asset. And, no, the damage can never really be undone.
Sarah Wildman on the glories of the individual insurance market:Our six-month-old daughter cost over $22,000.You’d think, with a number like that, we must have used fertility treatments—but she was conceived.
Ezra objects to my post arguing that it might be better to reject a bill that sells out too much to the Blue Dogs:But it's also worth offering a more.
I think it's pretty obvious that a health care bill with no public option and no employer mandate is worse than no bill at all.
Math is hard!
This is certainly right on the merits:For Gingrich and his allies, the health care debate wasn't really about health care: it was about destroying the power of a Democratic President.It's.
So, as some of you knew and others surmised, today was supposed to be the day in which the wife and I enjoyed a Blessed Event, and introduced spawn into our happy home. For a variety of reasons too complicated to go into, we and...
Yep:In other words, [red-state Blue Dog Democrats are] concerned that the bill (a) costs too much overall and (b) will increase the deficit. And their proposed solutions to this are.
Hacker makes the definitive case.