NYT’s Harwood: Democrats Should Cut Medicare So Republicans Don’t Get Blamed
That’s not the title of John Harwood’s NYT column today, but it might well have been. In a typical example of sloppy, one-sided Beltway thinking, Harwood opens with, Soon enough, Democrats will have to...
View ArticleTea-GOP Idiot Watch: Santorum Thinks D-Day Deaths Won Right to Deny Health Care
I know, I jumped all over the media for paying so much attention to the clown car carrying the Tea-GOP Presidential wannabees. But really, when they routinely say things this mind-numblingly stupid,...
View ArticleEzra Klein Says Government Health Programs Work, So Why Not Expand Medicare?
I’m a little confused by Erza Klein’s mostly helpful post showing, once again, the US paying much higher public and private costs than OECD countries for health care. Congress and the Administration...
View ArticleDoes the New York Times Know Our Politicians Speak Gibberish about Deficits?
For reasons known only to its publishers, the New York Times has chosen to assign reporters and editors to the budget/deficit negotiations who seem oblivious that the politicians they routinely quote...
View ArticleObamaCare vs. RyanCare: Scarecrow Gets Confused With “Serious” Strawmen
Ever since Jon Walker and I pointed out the real and superficial similarities between Paul Ryan’s proposed RyanCare for future seniors and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) structure for non-seniors,...
View ArticleWashPost: Obama to Propose Social Security, Medicare Cuts to Buy Boehner’s...
The Washington Post has a story tonight, citing Democratic sources familiar with Obama’s views, that the President will propose a massive $4 trillion spending cut over the next decade that includes...
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What Is Mr. Obama’s Principle on Recreating Slaves?
"Abraham Lincoln" from onlinewoman on flickr The President of the United States is not a descendant of former slaves, which may make it easier for him to draw analogies to what President Lincoln once...
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New York Times Gives Mouth to Mouth to Discredited GOP Medicare Voucher Plan
(photo: HowardLake) New York Times reporter Robert Pear and his editors try to resurrect a zombie proposal by the anti-Medicare zealots to displace the guaranteed benefits structure of Medicare. Its...
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GOP Debate Candidates Can’t Answer Fla. Woman Who Asks for Health Insurance
Don't ask Mitt how to solve Florida's uninsured problems (photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr) During Thursday night’s GOP debate, a woman from Florida told the candidates she’d lost her job and with it her...
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GOP Senators Propose to End Medicare in 2014, Replace with Private Individual...
The GOP has a proposal to end Medicare The stupid[est] wing of the already crazy Republican Party, composed in the Senate of people like Rand Paul (Ill), Jim DeMint (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah) and others,...
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