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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…”
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.
In spite of, or more likely because of, the consolidation of news sources, the media explosion of the last 20 years has created a generation of ‘gonadally-challenged’ politicians who also apparently fall into the ‘intimidated by numbers’ segment of the overall population…
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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