Archives for August 2009

This comes from an internist. He has had a primary care practice in the New York metropolitan area for more than 20 years. For obvious reasons, he asks to remain anonymous. I’ve met him and can vouch for his identity. Right now, I have dropped my participation in every insurance plan except Medicare. I can […]

Watch President Obama reiterate his belief in the health care public option just a couple of months ago. “Those ain’t lies. Those are campaign promises.” — William Demarest, in Hail the Conquering Hero. Postscript: Obama’s Trust Problem EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

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Oughta put the cost of U.S. healthcare reform into perspective.Reform would cost $900 billion to $1 trillion over the next 10 years.Which does the American majority prefer — taking lives or saving lives? Consider this trade-off: Taxpayers in New York City, where I live, will pay $30.6 billion for total war spending in Iraq and […]

I know, because I live in one, and I’m doing fine. I haven’t been arrested for jaywalking, littering, loitering, begging, or sleeping under a bridge. I haven’t been arrested for sleeping in a homeless shelter when there’s an outstanding warrant against me for sleeping on a suburban sidewalk. I haven’t been arrested for being someone […]

So I’m reading a Christian Science Monitor article recommended by a friend as “wonderful writing” — A day of reckoning for Bush’s ‘torture’ lawyers, by Ronald Sokol — and I think, Yup, clean, clear, an excellent summary of all that’s been said before many times in many places. But when he writes, “To regain its […]