We're not as smart: A Catholic editorial
The Diocese of Davenport's newspaper, The Catholic Messenger, has this editorial by Frank Wessling on healthcare: We are not as smart as they are. And we’re not as kind, not as compassionate. But in...
View ArticleDonna Smith's new blog
The indomitable Donna Smith has a new blog at guaranteedhealthcare.org that I'll begin checking regularly. It's got 11 contributors, and so is almost certain to have new news and comments several times...
View ArticleMilitary benefits from desperation
The Wall Street Journal blog shares a NYT article on how healthcare reform could hurt military recruiting goals. Turns out that when an illegitimate war drags on, when troops are abused, and when...
View ArticleMedicare Meets Mephistopheles
That's the title of a 2006 Cato Institute rip on Medicare. Here's the spin, via Amazon: "Let's say you're the devil, and you want to corrupt the American republic. How would you go about it? According...
View ArticleHike the gas tax
Wednesday midday I was at National Airport drinking a coffee that tasted like boiled shoe leather at the end of a bar. An outlet lured me there. National strikes me as the worst airport in America for...
View ArticleHow many are underinsured?
Commonwealth Fund has just released a stunning report on underinsurance in the United States. "Insured But Poorly Protected: Number Up 60 Percent in 4 Years", finds that, "Rate of Underinsured Triples...
View ArticleBaucus says he shouda listened
Well yeah. Politico reports that "Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) told leading advocates of a government-financed health care system that he made a mistake by not giving their...
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Lincoln was for govt-financed health care
James Nowlan, a Republican at the University of Chicago, has a column in today's Chicago Tribune. It's notable both for what it says and what it doesn't say. "Abraham Lincoln declared that government...
View ArticlePublic Option Good Politics
Robert Creamer has an article at Huffington Post on Four Reasons Why Giving Consumers Is Great Politics.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifHe cites the popularity of such a program:In a poll taken...
View ArticleAmericans support a public option
A New York Times/CBS News poll shows overwhelming support for a public option - 72 percent of all those polled were in favor, with 20 percent opposed and 7 percent clueless. Half of Republicans were in...
View ArticleDefending the Indefensible
The case of a rejected potential mate came up in conversation with friends over the weekend. This loser's biggest fault? She was Catholic - which led everyone around the table to enthusiastically agree...
View ArticlePublic not so keen on the Public Option
People really do have an amazing font of ability when it comes to ignorance.Once you understand something - like, for instance, that single-payer health care works, or that the U.S. is the only country...
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Full Court Press
It was all healthcare all the time on talk radio this morning. On the road this morning I heard some conservative literally spit into his microphone over how crazy it was for something that was...
View ArticleAmericans: OK with Inequality
Jacob Weisberg has a nice piece at Slate on the reform package. What really caught my attention, however, was this commenter:Weisberg writes: "[The British system] doesn't cover many procedures we...
View ArticleFlurry of Pundits on Healthcare Reform
Health Reform Can Pay for Itself, by Timothy Noah at SlateWhy Health Care Reform Will Pass, by Jonathan Chait, The New RepublicMore Disapprove than Approve of Obama on Healthcare, Gallup PollReal...
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Soft Support for Reform
Back when politicians thought all healthcare reform could be was adding a few more kids to the SCHIP program, just like every other single-payer supporter I know I liked to point to polls showing that...
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Death as a Rorschach Test
After a post at Slate I realize, once again, that Paul's death is a kind of Rorschach Test. Usually people who are in favor of healthcare reform get it, immediately - how the U.S. healthcare system...
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First They Came for the Uninsured
When the Nazis came for the communists,I remained silent;I was not a communist.Then they locked up the social democrats,I remained silent;I was not a social democrat.Then they came for the trade...
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Second Amendment Health Care
Richard Verone had a growth in his chest, ruptured disks, and no health care. Typical 59-year-old American. Not the majority, but typical. He figured his care might take three years. So he robbed a...
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