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The organic vs. the undeserving
Ed Kilgore has a really great must-read article about how the Republicans are pretending to be fans of Medicare to red-bait and race-bait elderly white people and others with good insurance on health care reform. It’s the same image of the “welfare queen” that Republicans (and neoliberals) have been humping…
If you can’t do it for the country, do it for yourselves
Ezra lays out the political realities for the Democrats to consider if they fuck up this health care bill: Centrist Democrats know what happened last time a popular young president failed in a massive push to reform the health-care system and lost his high public approval in the process. A…
Cranky old people didn’t come up with this on their own
Please, my liberal friends. I understand that you want to be generous people who assume that our opposition is capable of arguing in good faith, and Ross Douthat makes himself an appealing person to reach out to, because he will occasionally say not-crazy things. And you’ll be tempted to reprint…
We don’t need no water
During Obama’s campaign, the Fight The Smears website became a useful tool to push back against the right wing willingness to lie their heads off about anything for the slightest partisan gain. So it’s unsurprising that they’re going with the same strategy in pushing back against the scorched earth bullshit…
15 seconds or your entire life
You can consider this the post that Ezra didn’t write, I suppose, since it’s taken from a cute and interesting post of his about cell phone companies and extending it to the health care reform debate. The twinkly Ezra post is this interesting one about one of those mild irritants…
I still don’t have a great feeling about this
Yesterday, Ezra posted the Obama administration’s eight point checklist for what health care reform should do for you. And here they are. See if you can spot what’s missing. * No Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions: Insurance companies will be prohibited from refusing you coverage because of your medical history. *…
We tried to save the lede, but it was underinsured and couldn’t afford the treatment
I’m on a hair trigger these days about health care reform, which is why I was all ready to heap mountains of derision on Obama’s personal physician when I read this headline: Obama’s former doctor critical of White House health care plan Agh! I thought. Another AMA jackass more concerned…
People of the 5th Congressional district in NC, please boot embarrassment Virginia Foxx out
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) is a stain on the reputation of my state. She continues to belch out the most ignorant garbage on the floor of the House. Yesterday she decided to weigh in on the health care reform debate with this doozy. Keyboard protection on. Rep. Foxx: The Republican…
Blows fingernails, smiles slyly
Thanks to M. LeBlanc for tweeting me about this. My article at RH Reality Check, which I wrote Sunday and went up today, is about how I think the mainstream media is out to kill health care reform, and they’re eager to use abortion as a tool to do that.…
Why the rationing and wait times lies have traction despite being lies
For anyone who has even a vague memory of the 1993 health care debates, the same tired lies about socialism and health care rationing are even more threadbare and obvious. Unfortunately, as I discovered when I wrote a piece for Lemondrop about what the word “socialism” means, how the way…
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