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Jesse Helms Died…
Jesse Helms - the famous, über-conservative, former US senator from North Carolina - passed away this morning at 86 years of age. Ironic, as it is Independence day and now we’re free from yet another suppressive influence. [The] Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, [...]
Continue reading...Senator Baucus: Ahead of the Curve on Health Care? I Think He’s Already Struck Out
11. May 2008
Senator Baucus certainly deserves credit for one thing. Being able to make this remark to a reporter about increasing access to health care without bursting into laughter must have taken a remarkable degree of self-control: “I want the Finance Committee to be ready, to be ahead of the curve,” he said. “That’s why I’ve begun hearings, [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Rehberg: Master of the Oblivious
26. March 2008
Bob already mentioned Dennis Rehberg’s interesting position on free trade with Canada from an interview with the Flathead Beacon, but I found this claim to be interesting, as well. Your Representative is exuberant about the level of health care in the United States: He went on to describe the U.S. health care system as “the best [...]
Continue reading...The Best Outsourcing Story Ever: Childbirth
31. December 2007
After a weekend of dealing with outsourced technical support from Sony and customer service from XM Radio, I thought that outsourcing couldn’t get any more ridiculous until I read this article from CNN about outsourced childbirth: But if commercial surrogacy keeps growing, some fear it could change from a medical necessity for infertile women to [...]
Continue reading...Republican Health Care: Only the Best for Staffers
4. November 2007
Remember Trent Wisecup, chief of staff for Republican Representative Joe Knollenberg, who called said that a protester was "Not a citizen" and who called supporters of Speaker Pelosi un-American? Well, it turns out that poor Trent is suffering from what he calls a "mood-swing disorder," and is being put on paid leave until he feels [...]
Continue reading...Discussing All the Options for Health Care
3. November 2007
Interesting piece by Mike Dennison today in the Independent Record, discussing what wasn’t said at the recent Montana Health Care Forum: universal health care: Instead, we heard lots of talk about solutions that would encourage or require Americans without health insurance to buy private health insurance. A chief organizer of the forum, [...]
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