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washingtonpost.com - 1/1/2009
A Health Reformer's Scary Diagnosis
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Health care, says the man most concerned with that 17 percent of America's economy, can be "a nation-ruining issue." As Michael Leavitt ends four years as secretary of health and human services, he offers this attention-arresting arithmetic: Absent fundamental reforms, over the next two decades, ...
online.wsj.com - 1/8/2009
Republican Reformers
— online.wsj.com — [GOP Reformers Face a Tough Fight] AP Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman... (more) Republican Reformers

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washingtonpost.com - 1/9/2009
Sarah Palin Lashes Out at 'Very Scary' Media Coverage
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Sarah Palin Lashes Out at 'Very Scary' Media Coverage

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Daily Kos:  Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

The Sideshow:  Nothing will make them stop

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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... George Will: Medicare and Medicaid are out of [cost] control. But I'm eating garlic and waving a crucifix  around to ward off vampires single payer proposals. My plan? Charles Darwin will fix it eventually. ...

Nothing will make them stop
The Sideshow — George F. Will is still trying to pretend that universal healthcare is too expensive. To do so he marshals a bunch of debatable "facts" and surmises, and simply ignores the fact that out in the civilized world, single-payer systems and even "socialized medicine" have already proven to work, and more cheaply than America's system. (Despite the fact that they smoke more, western Europeans have better healthcare outcomes, live longer, and spend their final years in better shape and more comfort.) This is the Can't-Do Conservatism of Rolls-Royce Republicans in a nation that is ...

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