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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed: Dick Armey: I Don't Believe In "Death Panels" But If People Believe That, It's OK With Me
Matthew Yglesias: Dick Armey, Big Shot
Think Progress: Armey throws Hoffman under the bus: ‘He didn’t pay enough attention to the local concerns.’
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"You can get a Ph.D. from Harvard without ever having seriously considered the subject.” Thanks Dick Armey http://tinyurl.com/ydpzxha 25 days ago |
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Profile piece on head of FreedomWorks/former House Majority Leader Dick Armey & efforts to stop fed. legislation. #tcot http://bit.ly/ne5Ls 27 days ago |
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What I'm reading this morning: http://bit.ly/4B5q1O 30 days ago |
Dick Armey: I Don't Believe In "Death Panels" But If People Believe That, It's OK With Me
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... In a profile in the upcoming New York Times magazine, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey touts his role through his FreedomWorks group in watering down health care reform and says "pretty soon it's going to be about cap and trade, which is another big Democratic power play." ...
Dick Armey, Big Shot
Matthew Yglesias —
... Apparently Dick Armey is a jackass:
In one of our conversations about health care, Armey argued that tort reform would significantly cut costs because doctors, with less fear of huge malpractice judgments, would no longer order every possible test. I asked if it might not be patients who sometimes insisted on unneeded tests. As an example, I mentioned that I had recently suffered an athletic injury, a ruptured Achilles’ tendon, and underwent surgery after my orthopedist examined me clinically and said he was sure of his diagnosis. I didn’t ask for ...
Armey throws Hoffman under the bus: ‘He didn’t pay enough attention to the local concerns.’
Think Progress —
... ” for them to “complain now that he didn’t focus enough on local stuff.” But it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Armey would use political rhetoric he apparently doesn’t believe in. In a New York Times Magazine profile posted online yesterday, Armey says it’s “O.K.” with him that opponents of health care reform fearmonger about “death panels,” even though “he does not believe” they exist. ...
Dick Armey Is Priceless
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
New York Magazine has a pretty revealing--and entertaining--profile of Dick Armey, the former Republican House majority leader who now chairs Freedom Works, a conservative grassroots organization that's been the major principal group in facilitating the tea party protests this year and, in so doing, has risen to prominence as one of the most influential groups in American politics today. In it, Armey tells writer Michael Sokolove a lot about his ideas...and those, in turn, tell us something about the movement he's now part of. For one, he says that "The largest empirical problem we have in health care today is too many people are too overinsured." He ...
Dick Armey: Channeling the rage of the right?
Jeff Mapes on Politics —
Dick Armey: Channeling the rage of the right? By Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian November 05, 2009, 2:31PM Since FreedomWorks has a pretty active chapter in Oregon, I thought it was worth drawing your attention to an article in the upcoming New York Times Magazine that profiles the group's chairman, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey. In Oregon, FreedomWorks has been closely involved with initiative campaigns. Russ Walker, the Oregon director of the group, made it clear from the beginning that he was fixing to refer any income tax increases passed by the Legislature to the ballot- and that had an impact on the legislative deliberations. Nationally, ...
Dick Armey: "The Largest Problem We Have In Health Care Is Too Many People Are Overinsured"
Open Left - Front Page —
Straight out of the I Shit You Not File, here's Dick Armey in the upcoming New York Times magazine:
What about the millions of Americans, I asked, who have insurance but find that the rising premiums and deductibles are eating away at any financial gains they might otherwise make? "The largest empirical problem we have in health care today is too many people are too overinsured," he said.
That's right - the face of the Tea Party "movement" is on record now saying that the major problem in the American health care system is that too ...
Armey throws Hoffman under the bus: ?He didn’t pay enough attention to the local concerns.?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... ” for them to “complain now that he didn’t focus enough on local stuff.” But it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Armey would use political rhetoric he apparently doesn’t believe in. In a New York Times Magazine profile posted online yesterday, Armey says it’s “O.K.” with him that opponents of health care reform fearmonger about “death panels,” even though “ he does not believe ” they exist. ...
Armey’s View Of Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions: Someone Who ‘Eats Like A Pig’ And Has Diabetes
Think Progress —
... Armey also recently told the New York Times that the “largest empirical problem we have in health care today is too many people are too overinsured.” ( ...
