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Add Your Name: Speak for the Public Option

by Karoli 06.25.2009

Just go to WeWantThePublicOption.com and sign the petition. Then pass the word. Let’s show the lobbyists and the lobbied that when 76% of the country wants something, they should get it. Now, not ten years from now. Here’s the problem: We’ve got a bunch of scaredy-cat Democrats who are equivocating on true reform in the [...]

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Revolution, American Style

by Karoli 06.21.2009

Americans have always loved freedom fighters. After all, it’s in our DNA — our story of the land of the free bought with the spilled blood of our forefathers who rebelled against oppression to create the most powerful nation in the world is a heady and exhilarating ideal. It’s hardly a surprise that so many [...]

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Health Care Reform Will Accelerate Health 2.0

by francine 06.18.2009

The new Pew Study on the impact of the Internet on American life came out last week, and as usual, someone, @mrinaldesai, to be exact, Tweeted it and I found it:-) Yes, this is what Twitter is for: DISCOVERY. In 2000, 46% of Americans had access to the Internet. Less than a decade later, 74% [...]

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Time to be Freaked Out About the Direction of Health Care Reform

by francine 05.25.2009

OK. I’m officially freaked out by what is happening around health care reform after watching Bill Moyers’ Journal. Single payer, which was implemented successfully by every other developed country in the world, has been dismissed as “too disruptive.” Instead, we are going to get some hodge-podge combo that will neither lower costs nor decrease paperwork [...]

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