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There. That's all the permathreads in one. Discuss.
Sorry to go meta. Snarl.
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Per capita health care spending (2007):
United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
-- Bob Somerby
The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.
* Medicare For All.
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Perhaps you'd like something on health care?
Before my upcoming Taser post, which actually is dominantly about scientific methodology, data interpretation and media sensationalism as well as the pitfalls of our academic imperative to publish, but not to worry; it should devolve into petty name-calling pretty quickly.
The health care one first, then. Not that I suppose it will be universally embraced, either.
Embrace the suck?
Well, is it going to be another Google University special?
looking forward to that.
i expect to disagree with you on both of those subjects.
it is your open-mindedness
I most admire.
it is your long-windedness
i most admire.
all snark aside, i read [almost] every word you write and follow [almost] every one of your links. i find your style highly entertaining and i learn something every time you put fingers to keyboard. please don't stop. ;)
but yeah, based on some things you've said in the past, i'm guessing we won't exactly see eye-to-eye on either of these issues.
Respect, hipparchia
For you I haz it.
Not really
If I were you, I'd stick to topic areas where lives aren't at stake.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
six minutes flat
n/t
Au contraire
A post can be extremely valuable as a learning opportunity for readers on topics like rhetoric, argumentative tactics, and thread management. I'm simply recommending that you play to your strengths.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have strengths?
Who knew?
I just said you did...
... and identified them. Now, personally, I don't feel a need to study up on argumentative tactics and rhetoric -- not to mention sorting out the policy signal from the noise -- so, for me, opportunity costs. Others may value their time in a different way.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
best. headline. evar.
until the next good one you come up with, of course.
Yeah, I was trying to work in something about kittens...
... but that would have been way over the top. Moderation in all things!
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
You could always poke fun of PETA
They want to rename fish "sea kittens" since fish is such an icky term.
- “I do not think that word means what you think it means"
Le Bloc ou le mort!
Agreed
...all around but damn I must've missed the dog post! :D
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
i love "fish kittens!"
oh...you mean the other kind. nevermind.
but i do agree with fish lovers and ocean people who say: don't eat octopus. PETA people i've met really freak me out, but octopi are like the dogs of the sea- intelligent, playful, adorable. please don't order them at the sushi restaurant, thanks.
/pets lambert, throws bone/
Agreed on the octupus
Also, be sure to "pat dry" your octopus before tasering it, otherwise you'll short out the taser.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
sharks-fin soup, like bear gall and tiger parts
figures prominently and profitably in Chinese "culture" and "medicine".
All such trade ought to be banned IMNVHO, whether such "infringement on human rights" is PC or not. I really do. not. give a thin flying damn about the belief systems that make it OK to kill or torture animals for "curative" extracts.
I'm not crazy about the belief systems that suggest I should prefer constant low-grade diarrhea, induced either by drugs (alli) or bacterial infections (activia) to not having it, either; but constant low-grade diarrhea makes you lose weight, and that makes doctors happy. So I guess you choose your authoritarian poison by whatever makes you happy.
(PS: PETA can go suck an egg, for all of me, and so can ELF and their cohort. I worked for years at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The sleep research center cares better for the cats they learned about sleep from, even if they are running around with implanted datalinks, than many house pets I know. If you want to change the world, don't lie about research; and don't subject a fawn to being unable to escape a crate-size pen infested with fire ants. PETA soured me on their goals and reliability for life with that stunt.)
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
I didn't know about that
There are so many things I hate about PETA. I'm all about animal rights and I'm a vegetarian and all that, but they're sexist and their director supports breed specific legislation. She even wrote a piece in a San Francisco paper about how horrible Pit Bulls are. Because that's really supporting animals and not putting the blame where it belongs: on horrible owners.
- “I do not think that word means what you think it means"
Le Bloc ou le mort!
Something BIO might be interested in:
(h/t Avedon)
Maybe Paterson did know what he was doing after all.
Just another opinion, of course.
yesterday's news
The VRWC are happy, that's all that matters.
Sounds like she lives in NY state
and actually knows something about NY state politics. Who would have dreamed such things were possible?
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi