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is this one, and for those of you whose delicate sensibilities preclude a visit to DKos, this time you should go read it anyway, because it's not cross-posted anywhere else. Don't let it be the last thing you read at night, though.
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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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The Beltway; for background, see here. Denotes the Village
, but with connotations of ruling (as opposed to governing), absolutism, wretched excess, decay, and ultimate collapse.
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You're right on the post
Which is brilliant... And got all of six comments...
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
That's so unfair. It's only been up a day and a half.
/sarc
JFK has been shot, we miss him a lot
He always knew what to do
-- Philly Cream
And got one positive mention and one snark here.
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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
Still Working My Way Through It
A lot of info and a lot of work to put it together. Hope it gets more attention. One of my big fears is that this nation with the attention span of a gnat simply runs out of energy on torture (btw, are we sure we're not still doing it?).
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
It's hard to comment on it
I hadn't commented here, for example, because I usually don't unless I actually have something to say.
I'm not saying that explains the lack of comments, either here or there, but it's why I don't take number of comments as a very good measure of how much people are reading and paying attention.
Thanks for posting this, Sarah. I for one would not have seen it otherwise.
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We can't afford not to have single-payer!
a little night, it's one of the toughest reads
I've ever done.
There is NOTHING about this in the M$M, nothing at all. I don't know if we're still doing some of this NOW or not; I'm sure that as late as 1/20/09, yeah, we were -- or if not us, "contractors" working "on our behalf" (in our stead?).
Comments may not be the way to measure its impact or its importance, but the vacuum around it makes me wonder just how human we, as a nation, really are.
Dick and w the wonderdummy aren't where they belong -- in a prison cell apiece.
That the captain who commanded Abu Ghraib is now a Congressional staffer seems, somehow, very disturbing. But it may explain why Clusterfuck
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
Last time I checked,
even after 1/20/09, the justice department still exists and could, if given a go ahead by the current group in charge of it (who are they again?) investigate, take it to a grand jury, probably get indictments, and get a trial started.
I blogwhored it to Glenn...
Maybe others can do the same and get this work some coverage.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
I put a link at MoonofAL in today's Links for the Day--
I know, preaching to the choir....
As comment at Agonist, Confluence, TalkLeft, Susie Madrak's, and Eschaton.
Kos - now with 1% less FITH?
Nice post there. Excellent even.
But still: Kos. Meh.
Somebody please give that diarist a less polluted outlet to do his/her important work because Kos completely discredited itself. Yes, my delicate sensibilities object to Kos. Sorry about that.
Sorry, I don't fall in love with politicians. I'm not that desperate.
okanogen, let's not be tribal about it
One does try to avoid linking to polluted outlets (note our DCOW
warnings on some links), but let's not get too wrapped up around the axle over a link to a quality post on a site where they've become relatively scarce, OK? Ultimately, a worthy post is a worthy post, no matter where the bits happen to be stored.
Had Sarah posted "Here's a post at Kos -- see what a totally awesome site it is," I'd sympathize with your bone to pick. But that's not what she did. She singled out a post good enough to make one swallow one's objections this rare occasion. I certainly reserve the right to do the same.
thanks, vastleft.
"The laborer is worthy of his hire."
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'm really not much interested in pandering to your
delicate sensibilities, okanogen. Really. Not.
The work that went into that post is the kind of thing journalists used to earn Pulitzers for, and denying the writer / researcher the recognition that effort deserves because you don't care for the venue where it's posted is puerile juvenility -- and if you want to masquerade your political subgenre of jealousy as conscientious objections, go right ahead, but I refuse to buy it -- and I'm not sorry for offending you at all.
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