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Alice In Washingtonland

August 18, 2009

In 1865 Lewis Carroll wrote a classic for children. However, the logic contained therein seems to be the basis for present political discourse. A firestorm was kicked up this past weekend by comments from Obama and Kathleen Sibelius. Has his “requirement” of a public option itself become an option, a dispensable element of a plan [...]

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The Wrong Way

July 28, 2009

Someone recently asked me what the objections to single-payer are from those opposed. I’m glad they didn’t specify that it had to be rational objections. That would leave me searching for another topic. My job was made somewhat easier by a column in the New York Times by Randy Cohen, former writer for David Letterman. [...]

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Putting The Pieces Together

June 24, 2009

I‘ve written extensively about healthcare reform. Those postings are full of numbers, arguments, observations and such. If your Alzheimer’s is temporarily predominant and you need some refreshing of those details, read or reread some of those articles. This post, based largely on those articles, is just to put all of the various options together in [...]

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Healthcare By Salvador Dali

June 17, 2009

Where does the Congress stand on healthcare reform? Who knows? Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the House of Representatives. She has a commanding edge of Democrats over Regressives. One would think that would give her more leeway than Senator Reid. She should be able to at least make a stab at formulating a rational [...]

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