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(By Heather, crooksandliars.com ) Bernie Sanders gives John McCain an uncomfortable moment asking him if the VA is socialized health care, and if he or anyone else in the Senate is advocating doing away with it. Sanders is exactly right. It is not the job of the Senate to protect the private health insurance industry. [...]

Healthcare policy specialist Grace-Marie Turner shows that consumer-driven healthcare beats centrally planned healthcare models like the Obama plan.

Americans currently have the best health care in the world. Why do a few want to screw that up? www.hoover.org Medical care in the United States is derided as miserable compared to health care systems in the rest of the developed world. Economists, government officials, insurers, and academics beat the drum for a far larger [...]

(Via crooksandliars.com ) As Keith notes, the Senators who hate the idea of a public option for health insurance sure didn’t have any problem voting for a public option to protect the profits of insurance companies against too many flood claims.

A cartoon explanation of why we need a public health insurance option. Now that the health care bill has passed, my friend Andy Lubershane (the animator) has made another video about a topic near and dear to my heart: Climate and Energy. Please check it out here: www.youtube.com Animated by Andy Lubershane. More comics at [...]

Limbaugh Embraces Costa Rica Socialized Medicine (Update1) March 16 (Bloomberg) — Talk-radio king Rush Limbaugh’s model health-care system may be one of Latin America’s longest- standing state-run programs, where 98 percent of the population is covered and private insurance is rare. Read more on Bloomberg

Let’s not get hung up over ideology, which gets in the way of rational thinking. The important thing is to receive the maximum benefit from our efforts, avoid human suffering, and promote human happiness. I think we can learn a great deal from countries such as Norway. Instead of condemning them as “welfare states,” maybe [...]