I'm the one with the tight sweater...More on what was discussed at TAPPED, and from Samhita, Emily Douglas, Chris Bowers, and Lindsay. Amanda Terkel has a transcript.
health care
I was fortunate enough to be part of a group of journalists and bloggers invited to meet with President Clinton at his offices in Harlem this afternoon. The main subject.
Well, this isn't surprising. Hopefully, this time parochial interests won't trump the compelling public interest, although given the extent to which American political institutions favor the former I'm still not.
Matt Yglesias points out he doesn't really think that raising sin taxes will reduce health care costs. And he doesn't make that argument in the post in which I attributed it to him, although he does link approvingly to people who do.As Matt Weiner notes...
This Yglesias post reflects a group of beliefs regarding public health that tend to cut across ideological lines, probably because they resonate with some deeply embedded cultural puritanism that affects.
One thing of note to add to this analysis of the Swiss health care system is that, as Ellen Immergut has pointed out, Switzerland is comparable to the U.S. in.
Long-time readers will know I agree entirely with this:So that’s the context in which to ask whether or not it makes sense to have a supermajority requirement for many Senate votes. I would say “no.” Even absent the filibuster, our system would still feature an...
This abominable rule shouldn't survive the first week of the Obama presidency; the fact that it will -- because reversing it takes a good bit of time and squanders resources.
Family visitation and work commitments meant that I didn't see any speeches at the GOP convention last night; I can't say I was terribly disappointed. Nonetheless, I did look at.
Further proof that the Bush administration thinks it is above the law, or that the law is just not worth following: according to the government accountability office (GAO) the administration's push to restrict the use of S-CHIP funds to cover people above the poverty line...
If, like me, you've ever wondered what it would be like to cuddle up on a drugged Glenn Beck's chest while he gurgled cryptic aphorisms about health care and compassion,.
From the NYT article on the home edition of the Merck/Meriel manual, which sounds like Gray's Anatomy meets DSM-IV meets Physician's Desk Reference for the insane world of domesticated animals:.