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Tea Party Convention

Feb 6, '10 12:26 PM
(More teabaggers. - promoted by Bob Neer)

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Obama at Northeastern at 1 PM Sunday

Jan 16, '10 11:25 AM
(Yup. - promoted by Charley on the MTA)

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Where oh where a new commissioner for environmental protection?

Jun 25, '07 7:05 AM
(Promoted in the interest of open discussion. With respect to Kayot's question, Jamie Eldridge has been absolutely out-front with his endorsement of HR 676, which would create a single-payer system of health insurance. Briefly, that means we kick health insurance companies to the curb, and have the government pay for (though not deliver) health care.

Here's the actual bill: HR 676.

And here's a lot of material from the bill's major advocacy organization: Physicians for a National Health Plan. There's a readable summary here.

And see the excellent comments below.

I might add -- Kayot quotes Jim Miceli as asking Eldridge how he plans to pay for single-payer health care. Hilarious. That's like asking the Mercedes owner how he plans to pay for a Hyundai. We pay some 16% of our GDP for health care; Canada pays about 10%, and covers everyone, without exception. The question is: How the hell do we pay for the system we have? And why would we want to? - promoted by Charley on the MTA)

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