Health Care
Obamacare, Kennedycare, whatever label gets slapped to it, it should be hands-off as much as possible for the Feds.
“It’s not the Kennedy seat, it’s the People’s seat…”
Spot on from Scott Brown, Republican running for the Senate in Massachusetts.
“With all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy seat and it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the people’s seat.”
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Hiding in plain sight: government-run health care
Their own words…
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Senate Finance Committee Bill now online – 1502 pages long
Good Lord, this is huge. 1502 pages of legislative language ready for your perusal, fresh off the Finance Committee site. This is what’s been called the Baucus Bill, I believe.
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US Constitution as a word cloud
Earlier, I posted the text of HR 3200 and the Senate Health Care Reform draft in the form of word clouds. George thought I should do the same for the US Constitution as a comparison. Here it is; compare and contrast:
Right off the bat, I notice that the word States is most-prominent, followed by...
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Why We Don’t Need Socialized Medicine
Why We Don’t Need Socialized Medicine is a brilliantly done, visual “fisking” of a ludicrous propaganda cartoon.
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Kennedycare vs Obamacare – two sides of a bad idea?
The disgustingly opportunistic way the death of Senator Kennedy has been appropriated by Democrats backing HR3200 and its Senate twin is on par with the Wellstone pep rally some years back. My first thought upon hearing these calls to “Do it for Ted” was this question: Why would I suddenly change my mind...
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By the Numbers, Part I: Illegal Immigration and Healthcare Reform
Recently, our national attention has become so narrowly focused on the moral issues of healthcare that many of us are losing track of the extent to which the healthcare plan is tied up in an inextricable knot with the economics of immigration reform.
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HR 3200 Word Cloud
The Senate draft health care legislation was done as a word cloud & now it’s time to see the House version in this visual manner. The whole bill, minus table of contents, division and section headings and age numbers, was crunched through Wordle’s word cloud tool to create this image:
(click on the image to...
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Senate Draft Health Care bill in word cloud form
I kicked around the idea a few days ago of crunching the proposed health care reform legislation through a word cloud generator. It seemed like it’d be cool to see what words showed up more than others, so I found Wordle and started scheming. Take the text of the bills, strip the various section...
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“I will vote against the interests of my district…”
The Washington Times has this report on an exchange Representative Eric Massa of upstate New York (district 29) had this past weekend at the Netroots Nation conference:
PARTICIPANT: So if we got your meetings to sixty forty, you’d vote…and there was single payer in a bill you would vote for it?
MASSA: Oh absolutely I would...
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Let’s have a conversation
Ann Althouse looks at the neo-Orwellian rhetoric of politicians “having a conversation”.
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Nancy Pelosi then and now
Speaker Pelosi in an August 10th opinion piece on Health Care reform and the protests against the proposed bill (HR3200):
These disruptions are occurring because opponents are afraid not just of differing views — but of the facts themselves. Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.
Then-Minority Leader Pelosi at a San Francisco town hall meeting,...
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