Category Archives: healthcare
Reigniting Support for Health Care Reform With a Broader Consensus
To quote a blog at the Village Voice, with the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, the Republicans have captured a majority in the US Senate, holding 41 seats to the Democrats’ paltry 59. It’s obviously an enormous exaggeration, as … Continue reading
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Rush Limbaugh Supports “Socialist” Health Care. Should You?
It’s been pretty heavily reported in the blogosphere – Rush Limbaugh needed emergency medical care in Hawaii last week. At a press conference he said that from what he can see in Hawaii, “there is nothing wrong with the American … Continue reading
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Is It Time to Go to the Mattresses on Health Care?
No, no, no! No more! Not this time, consiglieri. No more meetings, no more discussions, no more Sollozzo tricks. You give ‘em one message: I want Sollozzo. If not, it’s all-out war: we go to the mattresses. – Sonny Corleone, … Continue reading
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Health Care Reform: Abort, Retry, Fail?
There’s been some discussion in liberal circles as to whether it is time to pull the plug on the health care reform debate going on in the Senate. For example, in an interview with Bob Kinzel, Howard Dean said: This … Continue reading
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Joe Lieberman == Lucy Holding the Football for Charlie Brown?
Joe Lieberman, Independent from Connecticut, is threatening to filibuster the health care debate in the senate if a Medicare buy-in is permitted to people ages 55 and up. The Huffington Post pointed out today that this conflicts with previous statements … Continue reading
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