Ezra Klein has an interview up with Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota. In it they discuss the Senator’s health care reform proposal to implement federally chartered, non-profit cooperatives to compete against private insurers. ...
I appreciate Andrew Sullivan’s series of links on the Iranian election (both today and over the last week or so). So I don’t want to be too harsh here but this sticks in my...
I still think taking the health care debate out of politics would be good for conservatism in the long run, even if it did mean one more government entitlement. Then again, I think the...
Partially dissenting from the Paul Krugman column on right-wing hatred, Jon Henke makes some good points about guilt-by-right-or-left-association charges in general. He concludes with “two ironies” that are pretty relevant: The Left strenuously objects...
Via Politico: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that the Obama administration will take several new steps to reform the ways executives are paid on Wall Street — and he argued that pay packages...
Paul Krugman worries about the main-streaming of ultra-right-wing nuttery vis-a-vis the likes of Glenn Beck. I mentioned this a while back actually. Things will get worse before they get better.
That’s hilzoy, responding to another puerile and really “Malkin-award” worthy statement from Erick Erickson, who wrote:
— Now this is a fairly explosive one, and it should be stated up front that it is just one side of a much much more complicated story which the author is leaving out...
by Dan Summers I share E.D.’s skepticism about the private insurance industry, and wanted to chime in a few thoughts from a provider’s perspective. Though the American Medical Association has decided to dig in...
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