healthcare

(Cross-posted at vastleft.com)

What Bruce Dixon said:
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Just sharing what I wrote in comments in response to Glenn's latest.
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A comment subject-line at Open Left:
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This is your brain NOT on frim-fram sauce.

Once the assumption is made that the symbolic fetish object known as "public option" is off the table, suddenly the critical faculties come back (after a fashion).

One starts asking fundamental questions, instead of dodging them at all costs. Read below the fold...

Everything the Blue Dogs and Republican propose: Tort Reform, Competition Across State lines, Co-ops, Trigger... Benefit the Insurance Industry Not the People.

The GOP made heatlth care a Constitutional Right for all Iraqi citizens, including Single-Payer. Yet they are advocating for the Insurance Industy, with misinformation, against their constituents' best interests.

Here's how Obama described how the public option will affect private insurers:

He said an audience member raised a "legitimate concern" about how a government-run health-care program might affect private insurers.

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Over at White Coat Underground, PalMD has posted a very nice three-part series on the problems that need to be addressed by health care reform (and most definitely not "health" "care" "reform") as he sees them, including some useful analysis from the physician's point of view.

Part I
Part II
Part III

Here is his conclusion: Read below the fold...

The one before the election:

The one now: Read below the fold...

You just think you do. But, of course, those Baseline Scenario guys are totally DFHs! Read below the fold...

Via the Hartford Courant: Read below the fold...

I think CMike might be onto something: Read below the fold...

Mike Lux on the healthcare fight:

This is the biggest issue for Barack Obama, and his ability to get anything else significant done will die if health care dies.

Er, no. Obama already faced his biggest issue - is this country a democracy or an oligarchy?* And on that one, he already made his decision - trillions of dollars for Wall Street, a pittance for the rest of America. Why do you think the costs of healthcare are such an issue? Because dude already spent all of our money on Wall Street. Read below the fold...

dday at the end of his blog about the President's phone call with bloggers: Read below the fold...

More specifically, he wants to know your likes and dislikes in the admittedly dysfunctional American Healthcare system: Read below the fold...

MoveOn.org has a form designed to make you praise Obama's corporatist, Massachusetts-style health-care plan (such as it is).

Why not use this form to urge support for HR 676? Read below the fold...