ProudProgressive

Although I support a single-payer system, or at least a public option, in health care reform, I admit that there are probably reasonable arguments against them. So why aren’t we hearing any? Instead, we’re inundated by ludicrous claims that Obama will institute “death panels” and so on. Sharon Begley at Newsweek provides some interesting analysis […]

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The latest Republican talking point, as parroted by my local paper and Thomas Sowell, seems to be that the current economic crisis is not actually due to the deregulation of the investment banks and insurance companies. Instead, it’s because of the Community Reinvestment Act that encouraged housing loans to poor minorities.
In his excellent rebuttal in […]

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