Senator Lieberman, take the weekend. Heck, take Monday, too, if you need to. But, please, PLEASE, decide which Party you want to be a part of and show allegiance to.
It’s not just that you’re wasting my time, though — believe me — you are. It’s that I worry about you. I mean, you’re a Senator for God’s sake. You’re one of the most powerful people in the Country. And you can’t seem to make your mind up about which Party you want to be a part of — Gosh, that has got to be stressful!
My suggestion? Take the wife (or [ more . . . ]
What role a Public Option would play certainly depends on its exact design and implementation, but simply put and staying true to its intent . . .
A Public Option is the lowest cost option that actually can insure a pool of insured.
Basically, it’s the floor on cost, specifically the costs of insuring a pool of insured. And ‘insured’ in this case isn’t an abstract idea — It’s people, like you and me, Americans every one of them.
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Thank You for allowing all of us to bear witness to the return of the fallen from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Nothing more need be said except to highlight the cowardice of the previous Administration to hide that which all Americans should be compelled to bear witness to. Those that are killed in the service of our Country deserve no less than our attention, thoughts, and prayers as they are each returned to their native soil. To obscure every American’s opportunity to do just that is to diminish full and complete comprehension of the nobility of their sacrifice.
Army [ more . . . ]
You, of course. Isn’t it obvious?
Health insurance companies don’t possess money by virtue of their very existence. They get it from You, the people who buy their health insurance products.
So when you hear that, by many estimates, the health insurance companies spent EACH DAY, at least during the latter portion of the summer when Congress was in recess (and all those wacky Town Hall protests were going on), approximately $1,000,000 EACH DAY lobbying against healthcare reform, how does that make you feel? Is that how you want your money spent?
Wouldn’t you rather that money go to pay for your care (if you [ more . . . ]
My suggestion is simple — Senator Reed, it’s time to do what the Public wants, and the Public wants a Public Option.
It’s really as simple as that, and as simple as it is, I’ve decided to feature an A Suggestion article on a more regular basis. Rather than trying to drive to a particular solution (or take the time to explain the intricacies of a particular point by writing a lot), I’m just going to point out the simple and obvious and make A Suggestion on a more regular basis. They’ll all be here on LittleDEM, but they’ll also circulate [ more . . . ]
I should have seen this coming. If it weren’t for having such a busy week this week workwise, I would have had the chance to publish a Rush Limbaugh article, oddly enough predicting exactly what happened, namely that Rush would not-so-quietly and very quickly be ushered down the exit ramp of potential NFL team ownership.
So, adjusting my original article and reframing in past tense (as opposed to something more forward-looking and predictive), here’s why this was (and is) one of the absolute biggest non-stories of the year . . .
First of all, I thought racism was part of our American [ more . . . ]
It’s simple — There’s a give-and-take between preexisting conditions, another piece we’ll get into, and the Public Option. First, let’s dive quickly into the matter of preexisting conditions . . .
Simply put, insurance is meant to ‘insure’ against the unknown. It’s meant to take uncertain risk and either eliminate it altogether or at least make it more predictable and manageable.
That seems like an odd place to start, but it’s not — I assure you. It’s exactly why insurance companies want to discriminate based upon preexisting conditions. You see, insurance companies — by their very nature — don’t like knowing less than [ more . . . ]
If you didn’t already know, today is the two-year anniversary of the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting 14,164 on October 9, 2007. We’re sitting better than where we were only a few months ago, but with the Dow closing at 9,787 just yesterday on October 8, 2009, we’re entering the two-year anniversary 31% below where we stood two years ago.
I wrote a preamble to this infamous two-year anniversary a week ago, and if you would like to read an assessment that was just as accurate then as it is today, click here to read my original post on what [ more . . . ]
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