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Unemployed man with no health insurance dies after minor tooth infection spreads to brain
Not for nothing, but I’m sure we can all appreciate that this man’s death saved some us from paying slightly more in taxes. With any luck the Republicans will save me the burden of chipping in for his 6 year old’s well-being and education as she will be set since there is no longer any inheritance tax on her father’s estate. He probably saved a lot by choosing not to afford over-priced prescription drugs out of pocket.
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Breaking News: Affordable Care Act Passes Judicial Hurdle
A Federal appeals court has uphelp key provisions of President’s Obama’s health care plan. Judge Boyce F. Martin, writing for the majority:
Congress had a rational basis for concluding that the minimum coverage provision is essential to the Affordable Care Act’s larger reforms to the national markets in health care delivery and health insurance…
For those of you with some time, the debates posted on C-Span are quite eye opening.
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“Providers” And “Consumers” In The Healthcare Debate
It is easy to lose sight of the big picture when the details of an issue become the focal point of a debate. Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed, Patients Are Not Consumers, gives us a critical reminder of the problems we in a progressive society want changed.
Medical care, after all, is an area in which crucial decisions — life and death decisions — must be made. Yet making such decisions intelligently requires a vast amount of specialized knowledge. Furthermore, those
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“The Country We Believe In…”
From WhiteHouse.gov
President Obama gave a speech at the George Washington University and laid out his plan for a balanced approach to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over twelve years, based on the values of shared responsibility and shared prosperity. The President’s approach borrows from the Bipartisan Fiscal Commission and builds on $1 trillion in deficit reductions in the President’s 2012 budget.
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Obama to Propose Healthcare Cuts
Further deep cuts may slow the economy but structural reform of the entitlement programs are desperately needed to keep America solvent in the long term. Remember when everyone said that the Healthcare Bill was just the beginning, that additions and changes would be needed to implement the cost-savings and efficiency gains parts? Well, here we go. This isn’t a loss for a Democratic budget, this is a potential coup for ensuring the durability of healthcare reform.
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A Lesson In Messaging on Healthcare
Here’s a speech by the Great Communicator of the Democratic Party, JFK, on what turned out to be the hot topic of this election, healthcare. It is amazing to see how he clearly lays out the issue and connects with people.
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