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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.
POTL
, n. People Of The Lie. Coined by Christian psychiatrist and theologian M. Scott Peck in his book The People of the Lie, which is, among other things, an examination of the nature of human evil. Peck quotes Martin Buber:
Since the primary motive of evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church.
Additional excerpts can be found here. "Utterly dedicated to preserving their self-image of perfection, they are unceasingly engaged in the effort to maintain the appearance of moral purity. They are acutely sensitive to social norms and what others might think of them. They seem to live lives that are above reproach. The words "image", "appearance" and "outwardly" are crucial to understanding the morality of 'the evil'. While they lack any motivation to be good, they intensely desire to appear good. Their goodness is all on a level of pretense. It is in effect a lie. Actually the lie is designed not so much to deceive others as to deceive themselves. We lie only when we are attempting to cover up something we know to be illicit. At one and the same time 'the evil' are aware of their evil and desperately trying to avoid the awareness." Peck's material, I feel, has great potential for analyzing and deconstructing the nature and behavior of the wing of the Republican party that has captured our government. With the caveats, that Peck raises, that evil is very dangerous to analyze--since we are, after all, all vulnerable to it.
Comments
Sad at removal
I'm sad Bush's polyps were removed. They were the only benign thing about him.
Would I lie to you?
I saw Letterman with my very eyes last night, and heard him with my very ears. Certainly someone out there can come up with a clip. I cannot do such things at Pole Hill because our connection to the information superhighway is a dirt path way too narrow for video. The phone company keeps telling me I'm too far out in the sticks for broadband.
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Without Polyps, Nothing to See at SMU
Since everything else is a SuperDooperBigTopMagicalMysterySecret, only the polyps will be on display.
Ruth
Ruth
Leno (!) did, per Froomkin
Or something very close to it:
sez Froom
Which is not to say Letterman might not have too, but we would need a clip/quote. The concept pretty much writes itself; the only challenge would be summoning up the courage to say it on air and be accused of being "vitriolic", "shrill", or even, gasp (we need a bug for this one too) "Partisan
." (proposed def. "Speaking with a lack of deference to a Republican person or idea.")
Did Letterman say that?!?!
Come on. Not possible.
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
What David Letterman said
"After the procedure, the doctors put President Bush's head back in his ass, where they found it..."
Myself, I don't understand why the doctors were looking up Bush's ass to begin with - Dick Cheney got out years ago...
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