Tag Archives: health care reform
Dear Politics . . .
Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by Nicholas Martinez.
Dear Politics, You and I have been dancing around this issue for a while now. And despite our best efforts to keep up appearances, we just can’t avoid the truth: it’s just not working out between us. So, I think it’s best that we just take a break and see other people. Maybe we’ll realize […]
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Quite the Choice
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“‘But I don’t want to burn my flag…’ THEN DON’T” – Bill Hicks American life involves choices. George Carlin defined these choices as paper or plastic, cash or credit, Democrat or Republican. In reality, it’s much funnier and much scarier than Carlin’s pithy summation. For example, the right to bear arms so famously guaranteed by […]
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Everyone Dies
Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“It’s been too hard living/but I’m afraid to die/’cause I don’t know what’s up there/beyond the sky.” – Sam Cooke, ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ Here we are. The Senate will begin to debate the overhaul of America’s health care system. There will be much discussion of cost. Moral imperatives will be invoked. The phrases […]
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Mike and Collin Tackle the Presidency
Posted on 10. Nov, 2009 by Collin Orcutt.
Fellow “Obama Presidency” blogger Mike Preston and I were discussing the Ft. Hood shootings over lunch today. At first, we tried to figure out what to make of the tragedy. But then Mike presented an interesting idea. He wondered if the shootings were reflective of something bigger, a darker mood emanating from the American people. […]
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Wasteful Spending
Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Robert Voris.
“It’s like taking candy from a baby.” – ‘Tony,’ a con artist who defrauded Medicare of $20M This week’s 60 Minutes kicked off with a look at Medicare fraud in South Florida, where scamming the government for reimbursements of phony health provisions has supplanted peddling cocaine as the crime of choice for those not enrolled […]
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What's Going on with the Public Option?
Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by Michael Preston.
Even if you’ve obsessively followed the myriad twists and turns of the health care reform debate, the current drama surrounding the fate of the public option seems like something out of a Dan Brown page-turner: threats, back room meetings, questionable motives and misinformation cloud the picture. As a new week starts, though, it does appear […]
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President Snowe?
Posted on 14. Oct, 2009 by Michael Preston.
“Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it. Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls. And I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to take every opportunity to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our […]