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Wooooo!!!!!! I’ve been reading C&L for years and years — they’re one of my favorite blogs ever. So when they asked me to write a post about last night’s teabagger ’strategy call’, how could I resist? Go read it: Alice in Teabag-istan, complete with the mad hatter and a special appearance by our President’s cousin. [...]
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We are in the middle of one of the biggest redistributions of wealth ever seen in this country, thanks to George W. Bush and the Republicans. Now their chickens are coming home to roost, and it’s a disgrace. This is not the country I have lived in all my life. I certainly never imagined I [...]
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Health insurers are running their opposition to health care reform just like the tobacco lobby did 15 years ago. Working with established right-wing think tanks with varying interests, they are trying to mobilize businesses, religious leaders, tax reformers, and the media to carry their message that health care reform is bad for our country. Here’s how it was done, then and now. Only now, we can tell them “Not this time.”
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Dear David Sirota,
The heady rush of your own celebrity, combined with a clear agenda to sell more books appears to have distorted your reaction to a fairly ordinary, commonplace question posed by me on Friday directly to you.
You wrote this post, entitled UnitedHealth Lobbyist Announces Pelosi Fundraiser As She Begins Backing Off Pub Option. Within [...]
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Throughout this summer’s debate and under all the noise, there’s been a slow, steady drumbeat for single payer health care to replace the piecemeal reforms on the table.
I like single payer. I like the concept and I like the idea of paying a flat amount each year to know that if I get sick, I [...]
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True story: Early in my career I worked for a life insurance company as a policyholder service representative. My specific area of expertise (and what led me into the pension business) was annuities and IRAs. The vast majority of my day was spent explaining to (justifiably) angry policyholders why their annuity was worth $225.00 or [...]
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