Sauntering Around Ideas
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) just released their paper on health care costs for 2009. You can download a handy PDF summary. This material should be required reading for anyone asking “How will we pay for universal health insurance under Obama’s health care proposal?”
The real question is “How can [...]
Steven Pearlstein is fed up with the nature of the health care debate in Washington.
As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don’t agree. Today, I’m going to step over that line.
The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on [...]
At a recent town hall meeting, a man stood up and told Representative Bob Inglis to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” The congressman, a Republican from South Carolina, tried to explain that Medicare is already a government program — but the voter, Mr. Inglis said, “wasn’t having any of it.”
That nugget comes to [...]
Some of the costs of not having a public option are simple to calculate, but immeasurable in value. Infant mortality rates in the United States are 6.37 deaths/1,000 live births. A sampling of other industrialized nations with public health care finds the United Kingdom at 5.01 deaths / 1,000 live births. Canada at 4.63. [...]
Anyone outside of the soon to be former Alaska governor’s inner circle commenting on Sarah Palin’s motivations for resigning is speculating. Here’s mine.
The Palin memoirs will be written. Palin will go on book tour and follow it up with a regular TV or radio show. She will run for president in 2012 [...]
The practice of torturing suspected terrorists received fresh blows Friday after a magazine reported that a key al Qaeda suspect offered useful intelligence after receiving sugar-free cookies.
That is from a Raw Story story on a Time Magazine story detailing revelations from former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan. Prisoner Abu Jandal had been held in [...]
There’s been a lot of criticism of Obama’s plan to roll back the Bush tax cuts. For those you don’t recall their history: Um yeah. American really suffered under the tax rates during Eisenhower’s presidency.
The Irish Times has a poll up asking “Do you think countries that allow their citizens the right to bear arms are correct in doing so?” This question is apparently one reaction to the news of school shooting rampage in Germany where a teenager killed 15 and injured 9 others.
For an American the [...]
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