July 9, 2012
Cartoon: Another Republican Vote To Repeal Obamacare
A cartoon by Daryl Cagle:
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July 5, 2012
The Irony And Deceit Of Constitutional ‘Original Intent’ Arguments
E.J. Dionne has a great piece in the Washington Post: The Founders’ true spirit. In it he writes, “Differences over policy are often disguised as differences over whether a preferred choice is constitutional or not. When we should be addressing pragmatic questions — Will this approach work? Will it solve the problem it’s designed to solve? Is this a problem government should do something about? — we instead fall back on rather abstract discussions of whether a given idea violates the Constitution.”
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June 28, 2012
Republican Reaction To Obamacare Supreme Court Ruling Is Way Over-The-Top
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June 24, 2012
The Naiveté Of Advocating A Free Market Health Care System
In case you didn’t notice, the current health care system in the United States is already a free market system. There are winners and losers. There are some people who can afford to participate and others who get left behind. This is how any market works, and this is how our current health care system (which isn’t really a system at all) is working, or should I say, is not working.
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April 2, 2012
Obamacare, Medicare, Veterans Affairs: The Conservative Cognitive Dissonance Is Deafening
There are countless conservatives in this country who support Medicare and support Veterans Affairs (VA) but are against the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). They are against the idea of universal health care at the federal level. There is a cognitive dissonance at play here that is rarely discussed during health care debates in the media. We take it at face value that conservatives are against federally controlled universal health care as a matter of principle, but apparently their principles are malleable when it comes to Medicare and Veterans Affairs.
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April 1, 2012
Cartoon: Don’t Tread On Me – No Obamacare
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April 1, 2012
Does The ‘Individual Mandate’ Argument Boil Down To Semantics?
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March 31, 2012
Obamacare: Attempting To Redefine A Once Pejorative Term
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March 23, 2012
The Obama Campaign Wants You To Say ‘I Like Obamacare’
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February 19, 2012
Birth Control ‘Debate’ Reveals Flaw With American Health Care
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