tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post7199369235065211865..comments2023-11-03T08:09:15.690-05:00Comments on The Conservative Media: Activist conservative judge incorrect on health care insurance reformCommunications guruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15039487955952973487noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-85523089877328887392010-12-15T13:48:01.191-05:002010-12-15T13:48:01.191-05:00I've read Sick -- it's very good.
An exc...I've read Sick -- it's very good. <br /><br />An excellent historical overview of the politics of health care reform is The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office (Blumenthal and Morone). It traces the various failures and successes by both parties going back to the New Deal. Apologies for the flog; I reviewed it starting here:<br /><br />http://killiansaid.blogspot.com/K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-73959651248502065412010-12-15T12:38:01.571-05:002010-12-15T12:38:01.571-05:00It sounds like a great book; I would love to read ...It sounds like a great book; I would love to read it. You should read a book called, “Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price” by Jonathan Cohn. He covers the history of health insurance in this country, and really puts a human face on it. I also saw him speak a few years ago, and he was excellent.Communications guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039487955952973487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-56763237429540235792010-12-15T11:48:49.975-05:002010-12-15T11:48:49.975-05:00For the next couple of weeks, I can beat most peop...For the next couple of weeks, I can beat most people over the head re health policy. It's not because I'm anything special -- I just completed a course in grad school.<br /><br />A very good, readable, and brief book comparing American health care with systems from around the world is TR Reid's The Healing of America. He takes his bum shoulder to various doctors to learn how is would K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-35106604926171116042010-12-15T11:38:42.883-05:002010-12-15T11:38:42.883-05:00Great point. Thank you.Great point. Thank you.Communications guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039487955952973487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-74652298260596832252010-12-15T11:31:44.841-05:002010-12-15T11:31:44.841-05:00Why exactly do Republican Congresspersons get Gove...Why exactly do Republican Congresspersons get Government Healthcare?<br /><br />And the best (and at the same time the worst) example of the benefits of a Government run Public Option is Dick Cheney. Without Government healthcare he "earned" from "working" 40+ years in the Federal Government he would have been denied coverage after his first heart attack at 37 and be dead now.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-698816139775797752010-12-15T07:46:42.908-05:002010-12-15T07:46:42.908-05:00Good observation. I wish we had a “European-style,...Good observation. I wish we had a “European-style, government-run health-care system." I wonder what you would call Medicaid and Medicare? The fact is there is no more efficient health care insurance program than Medicare, and more of each dollar goes into actual health care than any private program.<br /><br />I don’t believe anonymous coward is sane.Communications guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039487955952973487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-30976155961466005732010-12-14T21:46:10.180-05:002010-12-14T21:46:10.180-05:00Pence said that the ruling struck down a “Europea...Pence said that the ruling struck down a “European-style, bloated, government-run health-care system."<br /><br />If not giddy, it's certainly overwrought and definitely inaccurate: There's nothing government-run or European-style about the ACA (would that it were). It's also profoundly ignorant: Seven European countries have government-run health care systems; none of the K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-18537712750375550412010-12-14T16:17:35.780-05:002010-12-14T16:17:35.780-05:00Sorry, anonymous coward, but I’m correct, and if I...Sorry, anonymous coward, but I’m correct, and if I was “one-sided” I wouldn’t let a loser like you spout false talking points.<br /><br />I beg to differ on your representation of Representative Mike Rogers and the rest of the Republicans state of mind. The headline in the P & A story is correct in that they kicked 30-50 million people to the curb. That is correct, anonymous coward, I don’t Communications guruhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15039487955952973487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35718918.post-83611641735956433662010-12-14T15:56:54.833-05:002010-12-14T15:56:54.833-05:00Once again, you're wrong, and one-sided.
Rep...Once again, you're wrong, and one-sided. <br /><br />Representative Mike Rogers and the rest of the Republicans are not even near giddy that 50 million Americans are without health care. This is just another lie on your part. Of course, you'll claim you never lie, but until you display the nailholes in your hands, that will fall on deaf ears and the facts stand out for themselves. <br /><Not Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08263978142551394876noreply@blogger.com