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Federalism and the public option III

In the current deranged climate, it's possible that Reid's problem really is the connection of Obamacare with the evil Feds, who make such a notorious mess of running socialist Medicare, the socialist VA, the socialist DoD health scheme for serving ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  29 Aug 2009

Cures

We recognised three levels of medical technology: (1) genuine high technology, exemplified by Salk and Sabin poliomyelitis vaccines, which simply eliminated a major disease at very low cost by providing protection against the three strains of virus ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  28 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Lewis Thomas,  White House,  Barry Marshall,  Lyndon B. Johnson,  Pfizer Inc.

Lost cause purgatory

When you look forward, you shall see a long forever, a boundless duration before you, which will swallow up your thoughts, and amaze your soul; and you will absolutely despair of ever having any deliverance, any end, any mitigation, any rest at all; ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  25 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Paul Krugman,  Jonathan Edwards

Conrad's health care regionalism: wimp-out or Jeffersonian?

I offered the G-11 group three models. One is state-based, so every state has one. I don't think that works frankly. In states like mine, the pool wouldn't be big enough. The second would be a national entity. That's probably too limiting as well. The ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  6 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Kent Conrad,  Barack Obama,  Margaret Thatcher,  Tony Blair,  National Health Service

Communism II : love it or leave it

In an earlier post I argued that we should retire the word communism from its appropriation by Karl Marx for the bogus slogan "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". This is fundamentally self-contradictory and does not ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  20 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Karl Marx

Communism I : forgetting about the Gotha programme entirely

From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!They disagree whether this is meant ironically or as a real, if remote aspiration. Whatever, the slogan has been taken ever since as the definition of communism, realistic or not. I ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  19 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Bryn Terfel

Moody's blues

CalPERS has filed suit against the three big bond ratings agencies for "negligent misrepresentation". Barry Ritholtz plausibly interprets the motive as vengeance, not money: the suit is timed to put the agencies in the dock when their shenanigans are ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  16 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

The Country is Going to the Dogs

..what has gone wrong in society as a whole? I believe we have lost our traditional sense of morality... When it comes to personal behaviour we have now come to believe that there is no right and wrong. Instead, there are choices. The market ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  13 Jul 2009
Related Topics: House of Commons,  Northern Rock,  Citigroup,  Jonathan Sacks

Don Jorge charges at windmills

"Look, your worship,'' said Sancho. "What we see there are not giants but windmills, and what seem to be their arms are the vanes that turned by the wind make the millstone go."Credit here Those comic Spaniards and their silly windmills, what a joke - ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  28 Jun 2009
Related Topics: George Will,  T. Boone Pickens

Donner Party anarchism

My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.There are worse fates than pitchforks. The RBC - and I'm confident I also speak for my fellow bloggers here - does not endorse this suggestion, at least unless the economy gets ...

From JWIMBERLEY, The Reality-Based Community,  4 Apr 2009

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