Archive for August, 2009

take two of these, eh?

10 Aug

I caught this NPR piece this morning contrasting the realities of the Canadian health care system with the scare tactics, common in right-wing adverts in the states, about people waiting months behind walls of bureaucracy in order to get urgent cancer treatments. Not surprisingly, these scary examples offered by opponents of health care reform are, […]

If you’re at all outraged…

05 Aug

Please have the common courtesy to understand what you’re outraged about. Paul Krugman pointed out a story the other day about a ‘concerned citizen’ in a South Carolina town hall meeting telling his congressman to “keep your hands off of my Medicare“. Yes, you read that right. Sigh. If this guy’s correct (and for those […]

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