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18 Oct 09

And they’re earning these profits and bonuses while enjoying a privileged exception from our anti-trust laws, a matter that Congress is rightfully reviewing.

17 Oct 09

Obama Threatens Insurers’ Anti-Trust Exemption - NYTimes.com

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“And they’re earning these profits and bonuses while enjoying a privileged exemption from our antitrust laws,” he said, “a matter that Congress is rightfully reviewing.”

Deficit Hits $1.4 Trillion, Complicating Stimulus Plans - NYTimes.com

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10% deficit Obama

The Obama administration said Friday the deficit for the fiscal year just ended was $1.4 trillion
Economists generally agree that annual deficits should not exceed 3 percent of the gross domestic product, and that is the level that President Obama had vowed to reach by fiscal 2013, at the end of his first term. At 10 percent, the 2009 deficit is the highest since the end of World War II, when it was 21.5 percent.

24 Sep 09

Public Wary to Obama on War and Health Care, Poll Finds - NYTimes.com

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23 Sep 09

Editorial - Safety and Trucking - NYTimes.com

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09 Sep 09

Americans Still Sharply Divided on Healthcare Reform

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29 Aug 09

Paranoia Strikes Deep

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reactionaries react ideology Obama

Many of his fellow Americans agreed there
was good cause to be alarmed: a new Democratic president was proposing
an unprecedented expansion of federal power that would increase taxes on
the well-off and dole out benefits to the jobless and other
unfortunates. Several spokesmen on the right made more ominous vows: "So
help me God, I will be instrumental in taking a Communist from the chair
once occupied by Washington," declared Father Charles Coughlin, who
commanded one of the largest radio audiences in the nation.

21 Aug 09

Roots of deficit pre-date Obama

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17 Aug 09

Op-Ed Columnist - The Swiss Menace - NYTimes.com

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healthcare universal healthcare Obama

But the truth is that the plans on the table would, roughly speaking, turn America into Switzerland — which may be occupied by lederhosen-wearing holey-cheese eaters, but wasn’t a socialist hellhole the last time I looked.
Every wealthy country other than the United States guarantees essential care to all its citizens.
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- quite good care while spending only about 40 percent as much per person as we do.
- By the way, our own Veterans Health Administration, which is run somewhat like the British health service, also manages to combine quality care with low costs.
- Again, you hear a lot of horror stories about such systems, most of them false. French health care is excellent. Canadians with chronic conditions are more satisfied with their system than their U.S. counterparts. And Medicare is highly popular, as evidenced by the tendency of town-hall protesters to demand that the government keep its hands off the program.
- to avoid making benefits taxable, employers have to follow rules that effectively rule out discrimination based on medical history and subsidize care for lower-wage workers.
- So where does Obamacare fit into all this? Basically, it’s a plan to Swissify America, using regulation and subsidies to ensure universal coverage.
- That’s why I and others believe that a true public option competing with private insurers is extremely important: otherwise, rising costs could all too easily undermine the whole effort.
- So we can do this. At this point, all that stands in the way of universal health care in America are the greed of the medical-industrial complex, the lies of the right-wing propaganda machine, and the gullibility of voters who believe those lies.