Tag Archives: 'health'

• First Read Bleeds

  MSNBC’s oft-cited First Read, yesterday… Will Obama be able to articulate specific policy proposals on health care that he’s for, or will we hear more of the same chatter on his principles? Repetition is always important to pushing a message, but one of the things that may be slowing down the process in Congress is [...]

• Fixing Health Care

  Quick and dirty… Eliminate Medicare, Medicaid, and every other federal health coverage program (and states would follow), and any associated taxes. Levy a five percent income tax on every American, with no income limit, to pay for universal single-payer coverage, the best the world has seen. Problem solved.

• Uninsured

  There will always remain a portion of the U.S. population that is uninsured. There is no way around it. Any purported efforts to completely cover the uninsured are disingenuous because it is impossible to do so. When Hillary Clinton argued that her health care plan was better than Barack Obama’s during the 2008 primary because [...]

• Ghostwriter

  You’ve got to hand it to Merck. Not only was the drug Vioxx rushed to market, lacking adequate trials and research, in a pure effort to pile-on profits (amid questionable marketing tactics), the research studies that were written on the deadly drug were ghostwritten. Now that is how you streamline operations and trim costs. And [...]

• MoJo: No More Meat In Schools.

  I knew I was getting into something when I began reading the MoJo blog, however this idea took me by surprise, even though the issue is in the news and it makes sense. “Given that little kids are far more vulnerable to the effects of food poisoning than adults are, it seems to me that [...]

• In the News

  - Chuck Norris doesn’t do push-ups. Chuck Norris pushes the earth down. But he may also be hurting Muke Huckabee’s campaign because “ Chuck Norris is great at attracting attention–but he’s lousy at actually convincing people to vote for Huckabee.“ – Mitt Romney is giving up on South Carolina, and heading to Nevada. A sound [...]

• In the News… Friday.

  Maybe once a week. – Your tax dollars at work. FEMA is doing their own reporting. – The Senate and House are looking to extend a mindless moratorium on internet access taxes. People with high-speed connections are expected to rejoice, knowing they will not have to pay an additional dollar or two on their bill. [...]

• In the News… Muck.

  - A bug in the newest release of Microsoft Excel leads to a computation error: 850 x 77.1 = 100,000. (Note: I use Excel a lot.) -Rahm Emanuel on Bush’s promised veto of an expansion of child health coverage: “Two hundred billion dollars more for Iraq — and $35 billion for kids is labeled excessive [...]

• In the News… Extended.

  - Has Senator Clinton been knighted as the nominee? “Hillary Clinton has acquired a near-lock on the Democratic establishment in the nation’s capital.“ – The left-wing blogosphere has, again, “declared political war against centrist Democrats,” and I will not partake. I do not support the Iraq war, but these democratic representatives were duly elected. – [...]

• In the News

  - Children “will have to be uninsured for at least a year before they’ll be allowed to participate [in CHIP], the Bush administration has informed state health officials,” which makes all the sense in the world. (If you are living in a bizarro world.) – Bloomberg nixes his third-party bid (or so it seems): “Nobody’s [...]

• In the News

  - Not surprising, politicians are fearful of their eventual YouTube moment. Just don’t say anything stupid, or do anything uncool. – Banning smoking in cars with children is a good idea (actually, it is worth the death penalty, in my opinion), however, smokers’ rights people are up in arms over the idea… “My premise here [...]

• In the News

  - Google is now offering Sun’s StarOffice for free, a $70 value, in the latest battle with Microsoft and their stranglehold on office productivity software. (By the way, I hate Outlook.) – How long will the religious right allow Romney to continuously sway on the abortion issue, “from the ‘effectively pro-choice’ position he held until [...]

• In the News… Rove.

  - The executives of the company that nearly leveled the city of Buffalo (and bankrupted the Buffalo Sabres hockey team) are finally headed to prison. – Karl Rove, the GOP genius, “leaves a lame-duck president suffering from low approval ratings, an unpopular war in Iraq and public rejection in the 2006 elections.“ – And even [...]

• In the News

  - Ana Marie Cox at Time has started a morning news segment, which may just put me out of business. Still, it’s great that Ms. Wonkette is “officially” back. – A senate bill that passed committee will for the first time all the government to regulate tobacco. “The bill would allow the FDA to reduce [...]

• In the News

  - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “has told environmentalists she supports raising fuel economy standards to at least 35 miles per gallon and requiring utilities to generate 20 percent of their power from renewable sources such as wind, solar or biomass by 2020.” Unfortunately, the energy bill being voted on doesn’t include either. A do-nothing Congress? [...]

• In the News

  - Former presidential aspirant Senator Russ Feingold (of Wisconsin) will be introducing a censure resolution that will “condemn Bush and his administration for misleading Congress in the lead-up to the war and how it has been carried out, as well as for failing to properly train and equip the U.S. military.“ – The newly-redesigned Talking [...]

• In the News

  - While the Bush administration was lying this country into the Iraq war, and falsifying Iraqi intelligence, “the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board — the principal civilian watchdog of the intelligence community — was vacant for the first two years of the Bush administration.“ – President Bush plans to “veto a bipartisan plan to expand the [...]

• In the News

  - What could possibly happen in the next two months that would make the conditions in Iraq tenable that hasn’t happened in the last five years? Bush is certainly waiting for a miracle. – John McCain on his as-of-yet disastrous campaign: “I think we’re doing fine.“ – The democrats are marching towards another stand-off as [...]

• In the News… Don’t Be Evil, Don’t Be Google.

  - The Buffalo Sabres have lost both of their captains to free agency. I think this is a good thing in the long run — the price-tag was way too high for a small-market team still rebuilding following bankruptcy. When it comes to my sports teams, I always support a long-term strategy. – Four years [...]

• Looming Health Care Crisis

  Last week, Jake Tapper blogged about Michael Moore’s new documentary ‘Sicko,’ and I commented… With all the talk of global warming being the issue of our lifetime, I beg to differ. The persistent looming health care crisis is by far the biggest issue facing Americans.

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