Jason over at Poligazette sends over a worthwhile post about the ins and outs of the health care “non-debate” and identifies 4 key points that he feels are potentially consensus building. Serious fees imposed on employers that drop health coverage to dump employees on to the government plan. These fees would have to be sufficient [...]
“In LaCrosse, Wisc., the Gundersen Lutheran Hospital system is, according to the Dartmouth [Atlas of Health Care], the least expensive place in America for the last two years of life. They have an advanced directive program, and over 90 percent of their patients have an advanced directive. They have electronic health records, so everybody on [...]
“The president is promoting the most colossal, brazen bait-and-switch operation since the Bush administration snookered the country into invading Iraq with apocalyptic visions of mushroom clouds over American cities.” – Camille Paglia
“The controlling of medical costs in countries such as Britain through rationing, and the health consequences thereof, are legendary. The stories of people dying on a waiting list or being denied altogether read like a horror script … People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the UK, where the National Health [...]
Independent Voters NOTE: Without much fanfare, the WaPo introduced a new blog just about around a year ago. Funny, this is the first mention of “independent voters”…in an article about Sarah Palin’s “downright evil” comment about President Obama’s healthcare plan. Sarah Palin Calls for…Restraint? (Stephen Stromberg, Washington Post/Post Partisan) IMHO Marc Ambinder is one of the more [...]
Many of us are already regard the Bush administration as a bad, distant memory, but today we’re reminded of just how morally bankrupt they were. From Wash Post: The dismissal of U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias of New Mexico in December 2006 followed extensive communication among lawyers and political aides in the White House who [...]
With friends like these… Seriously, I don’t get this dumb strategy of painting town hall folks, whether they’re astroturfers or not, as Un-American, like the KKK, etc. It’s not only counterproductive, it’s completely lazy. You could easily marginalize purposefully rowdy people with the facts of the debate and yet this is what we get? As [...]
47% don’t think he is. 29% are unsure. That leaves less than a quarter (24%) who believe he is. Also, only 54% of all North Carolina voters think he’s actually a citizen. Wow. Public Policy Polling has more…
“Right now insurance companies are rationing care. They are basically telling you what’s covered and what’s not. They’re telling you: ‘We’ll cover this drug, but we won’t cover that drug; you can have this procedure, or, you can’t have that procedure’. So why is it that people would prefer having insurance companies make those decisions, [...]
What’s telling about the conversations surrounding the “evils” of government run health care is how many people seem to reflexively applaud the notion of government staying out of the business of health care…and yet nobody who’s on Medicare wants to get rid of it. Watch the following clip and tell me it’s not frustrating to [...]
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