Health care
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- Right Wing Mythology
- Health Care Reform: A Test of Whether the Country Could Tackle Its Most Vexing, Long-Term, Systematic Problems
- The Populist Right Isn't a Political Movement. (cont.)
- Evaluating Mitt Romney’s 2012 Candidacy (cont.)
- Evaluating Mitt Romney's 2012 Candidacy
- Senator Lindsey Graham: Fiscal Chickenhawk
- Must-Reads of the Week: Google/China, Liberal American Exceptionalism, The Failed War on Drugs, Defending the Individual Mandate, Counter Counter-Insurgency, Idiocrats, and Men Did It!
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform (cont.)
- Liberalism and the Punishments of the Free Market
- We are not bound to win, but we are bound to be true.
- Worth a Thousand Words
- Obama's Self-Interest Lies With the American People's; the Republican Party's Self-Interest Does Not.
- The Unhinged Anger on the Right Leads to An Ill-Advised and Unhedged Bet Against Reform.
- Must-Reads of the Week: China's distortionary exchange rate policy, Mario Savio, David Brooks, Ezra Klein, & Dana Priest's The Mission
- Must-Reads of the Week: A history lesson, Reconciling Chart, Theism, Starbucks, the New Global Middle Class, the Beijing Consensus, and the Traitorous Supreme Court
- Obama's Health Care Reforms are morally decent technocratic improvements
- Paul Ryan's Principled Objections to Obama's Health Care Reforms
- Must-Reads During This Week: Perfect Storm for Health Reform, Making Controversy, Cyberwar, Limiting Government, Liz Cheney's Al Qaeda Connection, George Will, and the Coffee Party
- The Difference Between Obama's Health Care Reform and the Republican's Health Care Reform
- Obama Chooses Policy Over Politics
- Lamar Alexander Defends Senate from Those Who Say It Needs Reform
- What Obama Is Trying to Accomplish With the Bipartisan Health Care Summit
- How the Media Undermines Civility
- Why the Republicans Don't Want to Go to the Obama Health Care Summit They've Been Demanding
- Why Bipartisanship Is Impossible: The parties are locked in a zero-sum struggle for control of the government
- Must-Reads of the Week: Ezra Klein, Sleeper Issue of 2010, Success, Virtual Insanity, Abdulmutallab, Obstruction, and Madden
- Obama: You're Calling Me a 'Bolshevik' for Using Republican Ideas for Democratic Ends
- Ezra Klein: Our government's partial role is pricier than the whole of government-run systems.
- Must-Reads of the Week: Obama (mythical figure), Democratic Talking Points, Health Care Misinformation & Defenses of Reform, & Musical Predictions
- Defending Obama's First Year in Office
- Downside Risk and Upside Potential
- Buck Up, Democrats!
- The Economist's Podcast Entitled "The Democrats lose Massachusetts" Is "an insult to people's intelligence."
- Draw Your Own Conclusions
- The Continued Failure of Right Wing Social Engineering
- The Rhetorical Phantoms of Their Own Making
- In Praise of Tinkering: Health Care Reform
- Bipartisan in Substance
- Greenwald Jumps the Shark?
- Today in Health Care
- Ezra Klein: Health Care Blogger Extraordinare
- Paul Krugman Attempts to Fill Ted Kennedy's Shoes
- Harry Reid's Heroism
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Democrats
- Real Fiscal Responsibility & Deficit Politics: Republicans
- Political Number Games
- The Republican's Generational Warfare
- The Un-American Pledge, Nietzsche (Republican), Islamists, Anti-Statism, Health Care Reform (again), and Abortion Politics
- NBC's Dr. Nancy Defends Doctors in Breast Cancer Debate: "We are on the verge of becoming a scientifically illiterate country"
- That's What You Get For Trusting a WSJ Editorial
- Health Care Reform is the most significant effort at cost control in a generation, if not ever.
- Fisking Camille Paglia
- Health Care Reform and Its Unintended Consequences
- America's Schizophrenic Abortion Politics
- Nancy Pelosi's Essential Leadership
- Health Care Graphs, Cold War Deer, Evaluating Hillary, An Armey of Tea Baggers, and Rubio
- Limbaugh claims Obama is a radical leftist because he supports programs Republicans proposed a generation ago.
- What Would Republican Health Care Reform Look Like?
- Lieberman Ready To "Stick the Knife" In Health Care Reform
- A Vote To Debate Health Care Is A Vote for Democracy
- The most conservative senator is liberal favorite Olympia Snowe
- Must-Reads of Last Week: Data Warfare, Gay Rights, McCaughey, Summers, and Yankee Tickets
- Maintaining the Fragile Right Wing Coalition
- Must-Reads: Uighurs, Gay in Middle School, Vidal, Larison, the Public Option, and the End of Pax Americana
- Matthew Continetti on the Health Care Debate: A Nihilist's Defense of the Right Wing Hardline
- Our Health Care Systems Undermines Entrepreneurship
- Funding Health Care Through A Millionaires' Tax or One on "Cadillac Plans" - Why Not Both?
- Must Reads of the Past Two Weeks! (Extended Edition): J Street, NPH, Liberalism, Topless, Colombian Hippos, Grassroots, 1990s Reunion, Insuring Illegals, and the Iranian Time Bomb
- The Senate Must Allow A Vote
- Senator Grassley Talks Out Of Both Sides of His Mouth On Health Care Reform
- A Health Care Plan More Impressive Than Perfection: Something That Might Pass
- The Lessons of 1993/1994 (cont.)
- Health Care Lie #494: Health Insurance Companies and Their Allies Are Blocking Reform
- Health Care Lie #493: Rationing
- John McCain's Cowardly Politics
- "Fixing" The National Conversation
- Governor Rick Perry Lies to Voters As He Prepares for a National Race
- Shame on You, Mr. Hentoff
- Weekly Must-Reads: Disappearing, the Super-Rich, Harry Potter, the Public Option, Craziness, and Abortion
- Quote of the Day
- Tricking Us Into Real Health Care Reform
- The Selfishness of Reform's Opponents
- Health Care Lie #492*: A Government Takeover of 16% of the Economy
- Obama's Promise Was To Break the Hold the Idiocrats Have On Our Society
- They called Medicare and Social Security "tyranny" too.
- The Maddow-Coburn Debate on Meet the Press; and the Necessity of Violence
- Mad Men, Catholic NYC, Ezra Klein, Social Security, Jon Stewart, Jared Diamond
- The Smearing of Britain's National Health Service
- The Smearing of Ezekiel Emanuel
- Right wingers, desperate to return to power, turn to the man they demonized, Saul Alinsky
- The Right-Wing Canard of 'Rationing' and Health Care Reform
- 4 Points on Health Care
- Ezra Klein's Mood Swings
- The Bankruptcy of Deficit Politics
- Colbert: "The bill's a thousand pages! There's no way of know what's in it!"
- Chuck Norris says "Obamacare" will result in "home intrusion" and socialist "indoctrination" of your children. So it must be true.
- Senator David Vitter Lies Again: Claims Health Reform Creating "Abortion Mandate" That Will Kill "Millions Upon Millions"
- Prominent Liberal Blogger: Obama acting exactly as if he does have a secret "death committee"!!!
- Right-Wing Editorial FAIL!
- Mild-Mannered Columnist Steven Pearlstein Gets Mad
- Stopping the Democrats from Descending to Sarah Palin's Level
- Our Unhinged Debate on Health Care Reform
- The AARP Pushes Back Against What It Calls Crazy Rumors About Health Care Reform
- Gog et Magog, Hypomania in the White House, Reuters!, The Most Interesting Man in the World, and the NRLC
- Zeke Emanuel on the Health Insurance Exchange
- A Jumble of Health Care Related Points
- Lies About Health Care Reform
- Krugman Summarizes the Health Care Problem
- What Do Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Che Guevera Have in Common?
- Best Line of the Week
- Is Obama Leading Us To A Technocratic Dystopia?
- Bill Maher Explains Why Profits Don't Need To Be Part of Our Health Care System
- Health Care Reform: Choice and Security
- A Leap of Faith on Health Care
- The Federal Reserve, Henry Gates, Popular Policies, Health Care, Krugman on Cap and Trade, and High Times
- Our Wall-Street Run Health Care
- The Option of Doing Nothing on Health Care
- The Lesson of 1993/1994
- A Distinctly American Health Care System
- Health Care Reform To Stimulate the Entrepreneurship
- The Medical Loss Ratio
- There Is Such A Thing As A Right to Health Care
- An idea for a new health care public service announcement
- How the Problem of Health Care Undermines the Legitimacy of the Market-State
- Organizing a Grass Roots Movement for Health Care Reform
- Are The Pieces Aligning on Health Care?
- Mirror Neurons, Iran's Fissures, Yglesian Insights, The Deficit Crisis, Rare Minerals
- The Master Plan Always Has Flaws
- The Larger Narrative
- An Ambitious Presidency
- Health Care's Place in Obamanomics
- Jindal's Health Care Reform