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Health Care And Preparedness Report Cards: The System Needs Work
Daily Kos — ... One of the frequent excuses used by those who oppose significant reform is some variant of "we have the best health system in the world, so why mess with a good thing?" By the way, the second frequent excuse, expense, won't fly any more: see U.S. 'Not Getting What We Pay For' and ...

The iPod Tax: This is How We Win
The Next Right — ... Third, with out-of-control health care costs being a big driver of spending at the state level, will the GOP put forward a compelling agenda on controlling health care costs? The health care debate at the federal level has focused mostly on the question of access -- but the problems people experience most directly are on different axes: cost and quality. With waste accounting for up to half of U.S. health care spending, it is the states -- as the biggest direct consumers of health care -- that have the biggest incentive to do something about it. Will any of them step up and do ...

Everything is NOT Slavery
The Republic of T. — ... ), and we’re spending $2.3 trillion and still not getting what we pay for isn’t exactly what I’d call ideal. Nor would any other sane person. ...