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AP. But then suddenly everybody agrees! Health care deform by Christmas! Yay!
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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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But this is good, isn't it?
The longer the time they say they're going to need, the greater the odds that they don't pass anything at all, right?
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
Yes, I think it is good
Why don't they just pass the goody bag, strip out everything else, and go back to square one?
But that doesn't mean that the process isn't what it is: I've always hated that gluey, fake, soppy Bing Crosby song.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I preferred 'Christmas with the Chipmunks' myself.
It had a greater variety of carols and songs.
Nothing is true; everything is permitted.
I hate the chipmunks...
... even more than Bing Crosby. Even more than Harry Reid, if it comes to that, and I was a Reid defender for some time.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Me, too
But I thought that's because I'm not Christian. (It's probably one of my least favorite Christmas songs. OK, I hate it, really—it's sickeningly saccharine.)
I always get a kick out of Mele Kalikimaka myself—it always feels vaguely subversive to me. inverting all the traditional Victorian images of Christmas.
Every apathetic citizen is a silent enlistee in the cause of inverted totalitarianism.—Sidney Wolin
And then there's this
great Christmas carol which seems appropriate.