Atrios writes of the neocons: When the American empire crumbles, future historians will point to the fact that anyone took any of these people seriously as the main reason… The thing I always wonder is: how did the neocons amass so much influence? Everything they attempt fails and, when you consider how unpersuasive their arguments …
Lexicon (A-Z)
Teach a man a fact, and he’s smart for a day. Teach a man to reason, and he’s a pain in the ass to his social betters for the rest of his life. # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U …
Research, bitches
Halperin and Mike Allen are pushing the insurance industry’s paid-for research about how the world will end if we pass a health care reform bill. Jon Cohn debunks it here. An industry thinks a bill is going to hurt the industry. So their lobby pays some accountants to write a study portraying the bill in …
Rise above, we’re gonna rise above
There’s very few mainstream pundits who rise above the din of the Beltway idiocracy. For me, the list was Paul Krugman, Tom Edsall, and Ron Brownstein. Now it includes Ezra Klein: If Americans felt the full burden of health-care costs, they’d likely be clamoring for all these policies, and maybe more. They’d want transformational change. …
Keep your hands off my welfare state
Ezra Klein on why the Matlock demographic opposes health care reform: What are seniors so afraid of? From the beginning, Medicare has been named as one of the potential sources of savings that would fund subsidies for the uninsured. That sounds like service cuts, even if the specific changes don’t involve anything of the kind …
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No Rationing the Idiocy, That’s Fer Sure
Ezra Klein points out that we ration healthcare in this country, namely by simply pricing millions out of the market: The numbers are almost mirror images of each other. Twenty-seven percent of Canadians wait more than four months for treatment, versus only four percent of Americans. Twenty-four percent of Americans can’t afford medical care at …
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Reports of its death…
Ezra explains how the public option may end up in the final bill even if it isn’t in the Senate bill.