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Google Reduces Evil Quotient

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EastSider3/22/2010 8:13:18 pm PDT

re: #240 The Sanity Inspector

Believe it or don’t, we actually do care quite a lot about the poor, the blind, the sick, the lame, and the halt. Our fear is that our nation will be financially ruined AND that the goals of the bill will not be met in the end anyway. Like so many of LBJ’s Great Society programs just amounted to flinging money out of the back of a speeding train, and did not ease the ills they were supposed to address.

its a tough problem, I’ll give you that. The insurance companies and medical industry best step up their games b/c things are about to get a lot hairier, and to albusteve’s continuous point, a lot tighter. I for one would have preferred a single-payer nationalized system (I suppose that makes me a goddamned socialist?), if only for the simplicity and cost savings in an economy of scale and the fact that gov’t health programs have a better efficiency (health expenditure/total premium dollars) ratio than private insurance companies. But republicans successfully negotiated that away, as well as the potential public option, in exchange for their votes reasoned debate hyperbolic rhetoric.