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Team Wall Street Attacks: Blood Bath
(Originally posted November 21, 2010) Simpson-Bowles commission quick hits and commentary. Team Wall Street’s Erskine Bowels is making stuff up. Alan Simpson is giddy at the prospect of a GOP-fueled d… more →
Michael Conrad Archive
The Democrats' Tower of Babel
wrote 3 weeks ago: Each of the two ratified versions of the health care bill currently waiting in Congress was barely p … more →
Barack Obama: A Failing Grade as Party Leader
wrote 3 weeks ago: Those who attain the Office of President of the United States become the titular heads of their resp … more →
Insurance
wrote 1 month ago: Well, my much looked forward to MRI for tomorrow is not happening. The place just called to let me k … more →
ACA is Good for Medicare!
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wrote 1 month ago: Misconceptions and misinformation about the Affordable Care Act are still too many to innumerate. Ho … more →
Stephen Lynch's Health Care "NO" Vote Continues to Haunt Him
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wrote 2 months ago: Stephen Lynch was booed off the stand for his opposition to the public option and health care reform … more →
abortion
wrote 2 months ago: Stupak’s amendment would increase the Hyde limits to the new subsidies, offering even much bet … more →
House Dems push again for creation of government-run health insurance option
wrote 4 months ago: House Dems push again for creation of government-run health insurance option And, of course, while e … more →
New Public Option Bill Lowers Families’ Health Costs and the Deficit
wrote 4 months ago: by Mike Hall Health care experts have long said that a public health insurance option not only would … more →
Here's a great deficit reduction idea: Enact a health care public option!
wrote 4 months ago: Here’s why I love Jan Schakowsky: she, along with Henry Waxman and many of the more progressiv … more →
Medicare and ... the Military?
wrote 4 months ago: I read David Brooks’ New York Times editorial yesterday with dismay. It seems Medicare is not … more →
Is 12/12/12 a supposedly lucky day? Well, bring it on.
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wrote 5 months ago: Chris, Linda and our dog Chuck on a healthy hike in a forest preserve. Ironically, it was my back th … more →
Medicare Eligibility Age
wrote 5 months ago: It’s always bizarre to see liberals like Matthew Yglesias ignore the historical evidence and a … more →
Response to #putmeincharge (Put me in charge)
wrote 5 months ago: This was written by a British 21 yr old female who gets it. It’s her future she’s worried abou … more →
Obamacare Architect Leaves White House for Pharmaceutical Industry Job
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wrote 5 months ago: This article by Glen Greenwald is re-posted from The Guardian. When the legislation that became know … more →
Government-run health care: starving sick babies and children to death
wrote 5 months ago: Here’s a scary story from the UK Daily Mail. (H/T Dan Mitchell) Excerpt: Now sick babies go on … more →
Public health care working as designed in the UK and Canada
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wrote 6 months ago: The UK Daily Mail gives us a bird’s eye view of the largest government-run health care deliver … more →
NHS paying millions to hospitals to deny food and fluids to end-of-life patients
wrote 6 months ago: From the UK Telegraph. Excerpt: Almost two thirds of NHS trusts using the Liverpool Care Pathway hav … more →
The Real Obamacare
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wrote 6 months ago: Even before the Affordable Care Act had become law, its opponents cleverly dubbed it “Obamacar … more →
Health Care Quote of the Week: The conservative case for Obamacare
wrote 7 months ago: I can’t add very much to this NYT Opinion piece, save to say that its’ conservative cred … more →
