According to a report to be published in next week’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, tax cuts, long touted by conservatives as a cure for every problem the country faces, may indeed provide a useful stimulus for more than just the economy.
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“… The only thing I could compare it to would be if the ‘other OPEC’ established a mechanism by which consumers could choose, for example, whether the oil they consume came from Saudi Arabia or Kuwait or the UAE or any other cartel member of their choice…” As the Senate moves closer to debate on their version of health care — or more accurately, health insurance — reform, those in opposition are beating the drum ever louder for what they claim is a simple solution that will guarantee increased competition and result in lower premiums: Just one day after a bombshell eleventh-hour report about the cost of the Senate Finance Committee’s proposed health care plan was dropped onto Capitol Hill by the insurance industry, Committee members received more bad news today: insurance claims for injuries they sustained during the course of the debate will not be paid. When Alan told people that your children’s plan for health care was “die quickly”, he was, for all intents and purposes, saying the same thing that the Grassley boy said about him and his friends. Let’s face it, “pulling the plug on Grandma” is, in every sense, making Grandma die more quickly. So you see, our kids are 99% in agreement on this. The only difference is that Alan and his friends want every Grandma to have access to a plug in the first place. Less than 24 Hours after its ban on fruit and candy flavored cigarettes went into effect, the national Food and Drug Administration today held its first public hearing regarding a proposed ban on candy and fruit flavored underwear. “The insurers truly want a competitive marketplace,” according to site publisher Lloyd Woltz, “They’re looking neither for an easy way to avoid restrictive regulations nor a means of making it nearly impossible for the average consumer to challenge their denial of claims, it’s just that the alternative is too expensive. To incorporate in the as many as 49 states plus the District of Columbia in which they currently are not incorporated could cost many close to $8500. That’s more of a burden than they should be asked to bear, and once the public is made aware, I’m confident they’ll want to help.” DB Editorial Appearing on the August 16 edition of Meet the Press, former House Majority Leader and inaugural inductee into the Tea Baggers’ Hall of Fame Dick Armey presented perhaps the strongest argument to date in support of the principle of a government run health care option. Armey, best known to many Americans as the author of the mid-1990s GOP “Contract on America” was speaking about his role in a lawsuit seeking the right of individuals to [...] While the ‘national conversation’ has been much more contentious than it has productive, I hope we can all agree and take solace in the fact that it has effectively brought out into the open the need for another potentially expensive but badly needed initiative – mental healthcare reform. |
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