Image above from Iowahawk, of course
I heard on the radio news today "The US is the only of the advanced industrial nations without government medicine." I wondered "What's wrong with that?" No NHS, Please. We're Americans.
The O's Green Jobs Czar: We stole stuff. Another honest fellow in DC.
Statistics on the sun and sunspots.
I'm not dead yet. Via Insty:
ANOTHER HEALTHCARE BILL NUGGET: “The section, titled ‘Advanced Care Planning Consultation’ requires senior citizens to meet at least every 5 years with a doctor or nurse practitioner to discuss dying with dignity.”
Does dying of a heart attack on the tennis court qualify as "dignified"? I think it should, but it does rudely inconvenience the remaining three - assuming it's doubles.
The demographic death of Japan
The Great Uniter. (h/t, Driscoll)
Wilkinson on Peter Singer on medical care rationing
The AMA betrays its profession. Civil servants cannot be professionals because a key part of being a "professional" is being beholden to your own conscience and judgement, not outisde forces.
Another Sen. Dodd update. Just the usual sleazy, lying, greedy pol.
WSJ: The Obama Agenda Bogs Down. Democrats got what they wanted in the stimulus bill. The public knows it.
Good example of why Conservatism sucks right now.
George Will on why it ain't smart to soak the rich
The O is slipping faster on key issues. Duh. Guy is an amateur, and his issues are nuts.
Corzine is gonna lose the election. He is dead meat, but nobody can fix NJ's mess.
The WH hides the budget mess. Wait 'til everybody's on vacation.
From Front Page:
If priorities are to be believed, the priority the Obama administration has placed at the top could become a flop. Political pollster Daniel Yankelovich says that Americans are slowly leaving the “wishful stage” of the health care debate, when polling data showed broad support for a larger government role in medicine. Yankelovich predicts “in the next few weeks, when voters discover what national health care will cost and how it could affect their own care, romance will give way to reality.” Studies already show the legislation's eroding popularity, as citizens find out the problems inherent in socialized medicine, the tax increases necessary to finance it, and the deception politicians use to inflate the number of uninsured Americans.
Watch out, NYH-Presbyterian, Mass General, and Mayo Clinic. Via Viking:
Large urban teaching hospitals - including hospitals that are the biggest engines of the Boston economy - are facing the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars under national health care reform as rural lawmakers on Capitol Hill wage a fight to win more federal cash for their local institutions.
