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Jason Rosenbaum: Why Can't We Have Health Benefits as Good as Chuck Grassley?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley gets a pretty sweet deal as Senator on health care. He pays $356.59 per month, and the most he pays when visiting a doctor or hospital is $300. Compare that to your average Iowan family, who would pay almost $600 a month and be on the hook for $5,000 or more if they went to the hospital. And who pays for Grassley's benefits? Taxpayers like you and me. Senator Grassley's health benefits meet his needs and their affordable. So why can't people like you and me have something just as good? Grassley was asked this very question by an Iowa voter at a town hall a few weeks ago. Instead of honestly answering the question, ...
Have Senator Grassley help you get a job with the gov't, so you can have health insurance just like his!
DownWithTyranny! —
Health Care for America Now (HCAN) asks: "What’s Senator Grassley's plan on how you can get health care? He says you should get a job with the federal government, just like him." You'll note that the senator displays a quite extreme lack of interest in talking about his federal employee's health insurance. ...
The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt. 5
Booman Tribune —
Reclaiming “We”
The Republic of T. —
Mike Elk couldn’t have been more right in his thinking about what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of the Teabaggers, Birthers, etc. He would have seen that those faces that at first glance seem twisted in anger are really twisted in pain. He would recognize those faces as well as the source of the fear and anger distorting them.
It’s not about adopting their politics, compromising our own, or even tolerating their tactics. It’s about reclaiming “We” — The same “We” that Dr. King and civil rights workers sang about, and that I remember singing about myself in church, on the occasions when we sang “We Shall ...
Terrance Heath: Reclaiming "We"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Mike Elk couldn't have been more right in his thinking about what Martin Luther King, Jr. would have thought of the Teabaggers, Birthers, etc. He would have seen that those faces that at first glance seem twisted in anger are really twisted in pain. He would recognize those faces as well as the source of the fear and anger distorting them.
It's not about adopting their politics, compromising our own, or even tolerating their tactics. It's about reclaiming "We" -- The same "We" that Dr. King and civil rights workers sang about, and that I remember singing about myself in church, on the occasions when we sang "We Shall Overcome."
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