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Health Care Reform: You’ll Learn to Love It

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

know you conservatives are upset about the health care reform bill clearing the House, but let me spin it another way for you. Gone are the days when you could pay the doctor with chickens and rutabagas, and those days are not coming back unless we’re in a nuclear winter (in which case our current [...]

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Inconvenient Truths on Health Care Reform

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , , on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There’s an elephant in the health care debate room. Make that two elephants. Come with me in the way-back machine to the year 1900, when ladies wore ankle-length dresses and men rode horses into town. Let’s say we’re on Main Street somewhere. A neighbor asks a farmer about his mother, and he replies, “She took [...]

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Even This Smart Group Can’t Figure Out Health Care

Posted in Politics, tagged , , , on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

We’ve been meeting as a group for 18 months now — writers, lawyers, editors, a doctor, a gallery owner, a business executive and a Navy man turned truck driver. We’re mostly Midwesterners, and politically we mostly lean liberal. Once a month, we have dinner and discuss the “big questions” of life. You could call it [...]

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