Sad Songs

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I boarded my flight ready to sleep. Hope was dashed when I ended up next to a woman with a history of “working in government”. A history she was was ripe to share, with someone, anyone, preferably the person in the seat next to her — ME. I rank plane …

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Blogging For Choice

This post is part of NARAL‘s Blog for Choice Day 2011. Given the anti-choice gains in the states and Congress, are you concerned about choice in 2011? That is the theme question for this year’s Blog For Choice. The answer is, of course I’m concerned. My biggest concern about choice …

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Post “Fake” Holiday Rant

According to the Washington Post, New Bill Would Raise Rates, Says Insurance Group)…. “After months of collaboration on President Obama’s attempt to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 …

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Dancing (collaborating?) With the Devil

A post by Nancy Watzman, keeps us aware of the Health Care Lobbyists Partying and Fundraising with Congress this Week For those who haven’t been to the site, the Sunlight Foundation has a Foriegn Policy Infleuence Tracker and a Visualization of the Healthcare Lobbyist Complex Michael Moore (on Leno last …

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What To Expect As The Insurance Companies Try to Kill Health Reform, Again

OC reminded me of this Bill Moyers/Wendall Powell interview I saw a couple of weeks ago. Although OC’s interest lies with the medical cost ratio, and blaming the people who own the stock (you, maybe me), my interest lies merely with bringing this to your attention, in case you missed …

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Call Me Any Anytime.

An agency of the U.S. Government Withheld Data on Risks of Distracted Driving . . To no one’s surprise, our best interest were not at the heart of the High Way Traffic and Safety Administrations decision to withhold data that implied talking on cell phones, even hands free devices, while …

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