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		<title>Congress and lobbyists working together to stifle debate on healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 12:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stars do seem aligned for much needed change in the US healthcare system. But the organizations with a vested interest in the status quo, their lavishly funded lobbyists, and their tame Congressmen are going to do their damndest to make sure it does not happen.
The Boston Globe has an interesting article today: Held hostage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My take on McCain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see how Obama matches up against McCain.
I do think McCain deserves credit for his military service and the years spent as a POW. But he was a very junior officer and the most useful thing he gained from getting beaten up in the camps was the ability to identify a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am so relieved that Obama has won the primary.
Both Bill and Hillary are brilliant, determined, and relentless politicians but it is all about their own ambitions and ego. Bill was a mediocre president&#8230; It is only the contrast with his dreadful successor that casts him as anything else.
I have, for some time, felt that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More sleaze at the Department of the Interior</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to decide which Federal agency is the most corrupt these days but Interior is certainly in the running for that prize.
Today&#8217;s New York Times (24 March 2007) has a front page article Ex-Interior Aide is Guilty of Lying in Lobbying Case. The second highest official in the Dept. of Interior, J. Steven Griles, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA &#8211; another example of &#8220;soft corruption&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how does the Food and Drug Administration decide what drugs or devices to approve for use by the public?
These decisions are made by FDA Advisory Committees made up of experts in the field.
Today&#8217;s New York Times (22 March, 2007) has an article F.D.A. Rule Limits Role of Advisors Tied to Industry which says that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Health Care Plan So Simple&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s NY Times has an article (A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn&#8217;t Simplify It by Robert H. Frank an economics professor at Cornell &#8211; New York Times, February 15, 2007; page C3) which is worth reading.
In his State of the Union address, President Bush proposed tax cuts to make health insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 hours&#8230; And then back to &#8220;Sleaze as Usual&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s 100 hour blitzkrieg to return Capitol Hill to a higher ethical standard.  Not only is she weakening her message by demanding that the Pentagon fly her around in a personal 757&#8230; But it is already evident that her new rules designed to curb the influence of lobbyists is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq and Vietnam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 03:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of differences between Iraq and Vietnam but it&#8217;s probably worth looking back on Vietnam as we consider what course to take in Iraq.
Should we &#8220;cut and run&#8221; or should we keep sending soldiers and marines over there to secure &#8220;peace with honor.&#8221;
When our political and military leadership have no clear plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The battle between Universal and Single-Payer Healthcare has begun</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/government/the-battle-between-universal-and-single-payer-healthcare-has-begun</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US healthcare system is a disaster. If you total up all the healthcare costs (government tax dollars, private insurance premiums, etc.), US healthcare costs about twice as much per person as the healthcare in any European country, Canada, or Japan. And yet we have 40 million or so uninsured and on virtually every measure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now that he&#8217;s left town&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://2centsworth.info/general/now-that-hes-left-town</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe has an article (February 3, 2007 by Rick Klein) entitled Romney distances self from Mass. health plan. Just as GW slunk off to Washington leaving various disasters in Texas, Mitt is doing the same.
As pointed out in the Globe article:
The plan for statewide, near-universal health coverage was the centerpiece of Romney&#8217;s administration, [...]]]></description>
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