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Rep. Paul Ryan: Republicans won’t ‘give up on destroying the health care system’
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) said Tuesday that Republicans would continue to push to repeal health care reform. “We believe that this law is going to collapse under its own weight… This to us is something that we’re not going to give up on, because we’re not going…
Romney praises Israel’s health care system with individual mandate
Mitt Romney had kind words for Israel’s health care system Monday, even though, as ThinkProgress reports, it resembles the recently passed Affordable Health Care Act, which his party has been trying to repeal. The presumptive Republican presidential candidate said he admired Israel for spending less of its gross domestic product…
Coburn: Obama creating a ‘Soviet-style’ health care system
President Barack Obama may not be a communist, but he is attempting a “Soviet-style” takeover of the health care system, according to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). On Sunday, CBS host Norah O’Donnell asked Coburn what he meant when he told the Eagle Daily Investor that the president was trying to…
Yep, it’s come to this
At a Las Vegas town hall event, an Israeli man praises Israel’s health care system (a basic universal health care system, though not single payer), and a wingnut lady starts screaming, “Heil Hitler” at him. He loses it, understandably, and she responds by mocking him by pretending to cry. Via…
Looking beyond just getting every sick person to a doctor
Salon has a doctor writing about how even “socialized” health care is way too expensive because the emphasis is on “get sick, go to the doctor” instead of on prevention. Like pretty much all decent people outside of the U.S., he takes first world nations’ responsibility to see to the…
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