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• Freeze warnings in hell

  
  Corrente — Authority: 636
  David Brooks prefers single-payer to status quo Conservative columnist David Brooks expressed support Sunday for a system of health care otherwise demonized in the press by the right wing. "I wouldnt mind a single-payer. Frankly I prefer a single-payer to what we have now," Brooks told ABCs Jake Tapper. ...
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• The Senate HCR bill and the states: Will Kip Sullivan please pick up the white courtesy phone?

  
  Corrente — Authority: 636
  Building Single Payer Systems in the States with the Senate Bill One reason Im less negative on the Senate bill than some is that I know states will continue to build on its framework with improvements -- and most of those states need just majority vote in normally apportioned chambers, so public support for things ...
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• Wall Street was making boatloads of money…Yada yada yada… the US is sliding into socialism.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  it’s essential to realize that this is happening totally as an unintended consequence of the plan to save capitalism. Again. We’ve been through chapters in our history like this before (1890-1919; 1932-1952). It’s just a cycle. When wealth and power get too concentrated and there is a major power imbalance at a ...
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• Hey, Health Legislators: Want to reduce Medicare spending? Reduce poverty!

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  Physicians and Health Care Reform, December 25, 2009 Dear Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi Provisions in the Senate and House health care reform bills propose to reallocate resources based on geographic differences in Medicare spending. While well intended, they will penalize providers who care for the poor and ...
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• I guess its time to get a little more of the details

  
  Prometheus 6 - All respect and no restraint — Authority: 446
  The House bill would begin expanded coverage in 2013 and expand Medicaid to cover Americans up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level, currently about $29,300 for a family of four and $14,400 for an individual. The Senate bill would begin in 2014 and extend Medicaid to Americans up to 133 percent of the federal ...
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• Democrats Believe Their Power To Regulate Our Lives Has No Constitutional Limit

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 476
  We can sing the below story to Nancy Pelosi’s famous tune, “ Are you serious? Are you serious? ” regarding whether she should give the faintest of consideration to the Constitution while she tries to regulate one-sixth of the US economy and force citizens to purchase insurance. Sen. Feinstein ‘Assumes’ ...
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• "Major HCR operations have ended and progressives and their allies have prevailed."

  
  Corrente — Authority: 636
  Haw. Good one, NTodd. What you said : I will not celebrate the Senate vote taken in the the wee hours this morning.  At this point so many people are desperate to declare a win that they will accept anything so long as they can label it HCR.  You can list a lot of nice reasons to support this bill, from the ...
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• Single payer support, the letters just keep coming

  
  Corrente — Authority: 636
  Northwest Herald Single payer, Medicare for all ages, is the economical health coverage. With the $400 billion that private insurers now waste on marketing, CEOs could cover all of those uncovered by the private insurers. Private health insurance does not work. Between the loopholes and copayments and letting ...
  2 days ago

• Letter to the Editor: health care deform is a mess

  
  Corrente — Authority: 636
  Vallejo Times-Herald I did not sign anyones petition to urge senators to vote yes on health care. Why? No one allowed room for comment. They knew this health care mess is wrong, and will cost We, the People more. I did not agree with the descriptions or statements. Here are my comments: The health care game is a ...
  2 days ago

• My 2009 "McLaughlin Awards" [Part 1]

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 423
  Welcome once again to our year-end wrapup and awards ceremony. Honesty dictates that I immediately genuflect to The McLaughlin Group , from whom I have stolen all these award categories. We will begin this week with Part 1 of these annual awards, and then next Friday on New Years Day, we will present Part 2 , ...
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• Id like to send this one out to Professor Krugman...

  
  Corrente — Authority: 636
  ... in response to his "Comfort and Joy" post of today on the Senate health insurance reform bill (via Language Log ). Of Republicans, Krugman writes: In the past, there was a general understanding, a sort of implicit clause in the rules of American politics, that major parties would at least pretend to distance ...
  2 days ago

• What Congress’ health care overhaul is likely to mean for you + Sherrod Brown Explains Who Will Benefit

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 524
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/By Jordan RauMcClatchyKaiser Health NewsDec. 24, 2009WASHINGTON — Now that the Senate has passed a hotly debated health care bill, Congress is headed to the next step: House of Representatives-Senate negotiations in January to hammer out a final version. Given the Senate’s ...
  3 days ago

• Cato Institute asks whether Sarah Palin was right on death panels

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 557
  Story here at the libertarian Cato Institute . (H/T Caffeinated Thoughts health care round-up) Excerpt: What Palin wrote about death panels clearly had nothing to do with counseling or with any other specifics in seminal House bill. What she wrote was : “Government health care will not reduce the cost; it will ...
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• John Holdren - Obama science Czar is a eugenicist

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 153
  Think about this in relation to Obama(Hitler)care. Patriots don’t underestimate the implications. - David Crockett Do you guys understand what these quotes mean? This is Hitlerian! But then again, Hilter got all his wonderful ideas about population control and world domination from the United states. That is why ...
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• A True Tale of Canadian Health Care: Why some patients need to go to the U.S. for surgery

  
  Health and Wellness — Authority: 148
  Many advocates of health-care reform are admirers of Canada’s state-run, no-opt-out, single-payer system. Indeed, in 2003, President Barack Obama voiced enthusiasm for such a health-care program. Proponents of Canadian-style health care should meet Cheryl Baxter, a Canadian citizen who waited years for ...
  3 days ago

• Constitutional Challenges to Health Care Reform

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 133
  Does the United States Constitution allow Congress to force people to purchase a product (health insurance) from a private corporation, and fine them or tax them if they refuse? The answer is a matter of debate, but there is little dispute that such an act of Congress would be unprecedented. Sheldon Laskin, an ...
  3 days ago

• Senate Health Care Votes 60-39 for Bill: Are You Happy with Reform?

  
  One City: A Buddhist Blog for Everyone — Authority: 428
  posted by Ethan Nichtern So the Senate Health Care Bill Vote broke strictly along party lines, 60-39, and passed a version of Health Care Reform without any Public Option . Are you happy with what happened? My personal opinion is that compassionate and mindful people everywhere should consider ...
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• Merry Christmas For Obama And Mao Zedong

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 464
  How come every time we turn around we find President Obama proudly supporting leftists tyrants, dictators and ideology? Oh, I know, I know, the lefty loons call it all something else – like racism directed at Obama or some such nonsense to distract away from the evidence. When it was Reverend Wright’s black ...
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• My Blue Shield Experience Embodies Our Stupid and Wasteful Health Insurance System

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 486
  Dah DEE dah DAH dee dah Dah dah dah dee DAY Dah DEE dah DAH dee dah Dah dee DEE dah day… Recognize this melody? If you’re a Blue Shield of California member, you hear it pretty much every time you call and end up holding till an actual person answers. A few days ago I heard it for half an hour, ...
  4 days ago

• The only reason Im posting this

  
  Prometheus 6 - All respect and no restraint — Authority: 446
  ...is Hewlett Pacard sent a god damn pop-up to my COMPUTER in re: my HP all-in-one printer and Im STILL pissed at them about it. Expect a software update.
  4 days ago

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