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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 3/13/2009
No Exit, Ctd
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Megan throws some more cold water on health care wonks: If we get national healthcare, we will not get anything like the neat little systems proposed by academics who can assume away many of the political problems.  I am aware that proponents would rejoinder, that yes, they know it won't ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 3/15/2009
Freeman Exit
— corner.nationalreview.com — Great. But there remains the fact that the top intelligence official in the U.S., Dennis Blair, brought... Freeman in, figuring he'd be a perfect fit to head the National Intelligence Council. Freeman is gone, but Blair will be with us for years to ... (more) Freeman Exit

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Balloon Juice — ... I think will come from a future health care plan: Again, the only real question is will we be able to summon up our American ingenuity and in our Solomonic wisdom make a single-payer system that tries to adopt the best of both worlds, does neither, yet still manages to make the members of the gilded class even richer and leaves us with the worst health care system in the industrial and post-industrial world. Megan McCardle (via Sullivan): All of the problems with the Medicare reimbursement ...

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