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HCR History, Chapter 4: Medicare’s message for today

by Karoli on March 18, 2010 · 4 comments

[Note: The current HCR debate has gotten so contentious within the various 'liberal/progressive' factions that it felt important to me to amplify my position about the importance of breaking through this first barrier with an imperfect bill, and why I believe the prospects for improving it over time are stronger, not weaker, if this bill [...]

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Things Grandma taught me

by Karoli on August 17, 2009 · 6 comments

One of my earliest memories: Grandma reading me “The Little Engine that Could.” I can still hear her voice as she read… “I think I can, I think I can, I THINK I can…I KNOW I can… Her voice would rise with urgency with each repeat of the word “think”, resolving the cadence when she [...]

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