Be careful out there, friends, the bogeyman is lurking: single-payer healthcare. Or so The Wall Street Journal warns its readers today in a piece focused on the inevitable rise in health care costs–inevitable under the dumb system we have today. As pressure grows for the government to pick up more of the nation’s health-care tab, […]
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High Health Care Costs? Your Fault
Posted on 19 October 2006.
Sometimes, you wonder:is there no limit to a corporation’s willingness to obfuscate? I opened up The New York Times today and on the op-ed page there is an ad from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (this is the place on the op-ed page where advocacy groups run issue ads). The ad features a bookmark […]
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Another Argument for Single Payer
Posted on 18 September 2006.
The figure are pretty well-known by now: 48 million Americans don’t have health care and millions more pay outrageous prices for inadequate care. This is all about greed and profit–take those two factors away and, presto, you get national health care. The Wall Street Journal today exposes one aspect of the blood-suckers who are ripping […]
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Duh, Health Care a Crisis
Posted on 25 March 2005.
If you want to know why Democrats are losers, the perfect example is the party’s inability—either through lack of imagination or stupidity—to change the debate from the manufactured “crisis” in Social Security to the real crisis in health care. It’s enough to make a normal person, which I am not, scream. You can see that […]
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