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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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Yes, I am doing the happy dance in a big way, because FINALLY, this woman with the intellect of a flea and the conscience of someone inhabiting the third circle of hell for the lies she tells, is confronted. When directly confronted with fact, she spins a fantasy that has absolutely no basis in the [...]
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Here’s Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) arguing for mandatory durable power of attorneys and living wills, because it costs so much to care for folks in the last 90 days of life. His argument is framed in terms of reducing Medicare costs by forcing living wills as a condition to receiving Medicare benefits.
If the health [...]
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Something you should know about me: I’m passionate about what I’m passionate about, but I take pains to try to be intellectually honest, fair, respectful of others’ differences. I’ve had lots of experience, given that BD’s political views are the exact opposite of my own. Yet, somehow we manage.
That doesn’t mean I’m a wimp [...]
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Twitter can be a great source of information. Or not, depending. As marketers have discovered, it’s wonderful for getting a message out and spread virally, whether it’s true or not. Political operatives have discovered the same thing. In fact, the Twitter API is so robust and friendly that it can become a 24/7 propaganda machine, [...]
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