If you stay to the end of this post, you will see an offer you can’t refuse – no strings attached.
My last post was about a health issue, not healthcare reform. Writing so frequently on healthcare reform and the economy has built up a tremendous reserve of frustration.
I wanted to take a psychic break by [...]

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You have been sold down the river. So have we all.
We need to differentiate between healthcare reform and tinkering with health insurance. Yes, there is a difference. The entire burlesque these past few months has revolved around the tinkering.
A handful of congressmen offered HR 676, Medicare-For-All. That represents reform. All of the rest of our [...]

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Do you REALLY want a democracy? The healthcare reform farce we see in Congress is proof positive that we do not actually enjoy a democracy in the United States.
Who is to blame? You and me. Who can bring back democracy? Only you and me. How, you ask. Well, that’s what I’m here for. I have [...]

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This is not a prediction. It is only what I see as an optimistic scenario.
What’s going to happen with healthcare reform in Congress? Your guess is as good as mine. Because there is no leadership, no one knows what the outcome will be.
We do know a few things, however. Since it was given away before [...]

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I finally received a response from Bart Gordon, my Congressman. He totally ignored my request for a debate. Now I know why.
I had challenged him before the August recess. As September has arrived, that means it took him a month to respond. It is obvious from his email that he would have had to come [...]

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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 he [...]

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A few of us are unfortunate enough to be able to remember the decade of the 1950s. I’ll refrain from naming names. But, I will if I have to.

There was a major scare back in that strange, misbegotten decade. The “Bomb,” of course. No. Even scarier. The Communists had an even more devious plot [...]

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America is the greatest country in the world. I grew up hearing that and I used to believe it. I still hear people saying it.
Is it true? What did people mean when they made that claim? What does it mean now? Are people now just saying it out of habit? What criteria are they using? [...]

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Apparently lots of people are as gullible as Charlie Brown. How many of you remember the New York Times‘ poll last month?

The exact question was, “Would you favor or oppose the government’s offering everyone a government-administered health-insurance plan like Medicare that would compete with private health insurance plans?” Seventy-two percent favored such a plan. Twenty [...]

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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 context [...]

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