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Crapucopea.

February 28, 2014 Joe Leave a comment

We subject the Korean peninsula to mock invasions of the North and simulated bombing runs on a regular basis. So why are Russian military exercises near Ukraine any more provocative?

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Lies, etc.

November 9, 2013 Joe Leave a comment

To hear t.v. commentators of nearly every stripe talk about this, you would think individual life insurance is some kind of Eden from which subscribers are being exiled by pitchfork-wielding devils.

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Bugs in the system.

October 26, 2013 Joe Leave a comment

I don’t see anyone on the right wringing their hands over the fact that 7 million people will have no access to health coverage thanks to their refusal to expand Medicaid.

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Ryan’s express.

August 17, 2012 Joe Leave a comment

After decades of experiencing the magic of the health insurance marketplace first hand, the notion of being handed a voucher when I’m finally allowed to retire is unacceptable.

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Next round.

June 29, 2012 Joe Leave a comment

The very failure to provide affordable universal coverage is a kind of tax, since everyone ends up paying through the nose as a result of its absence.

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Life and death.

March 30, 2012 Joe Leave a comment

Jesus freaking christ on a bike, Justice Scalia … no, health care is not the same as freaking broccoli.

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To health in a handbasket.

March 23, 2012 Joe 1 Comment

I’m starting to think that Americans – even though we live in the land of a billion insurance policies – simply do not understand the basic concept of insurance.

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Moral hazard, part II.

February 25, 2012 Joe Leave a comment

It should surprise no one that Republicans used the economy as a trojan horse to conceal their deeply unpopular, highly regressive right-wing social agenda.

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Cashectomy.

May 15, 2020 Joe Leave a comment

I am now experiencing the second wave of trauma that typically accompanies major illness in the United States: medical billing.

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Sickness.

June 30, 2017 Joe Leave a comment

The “free market” approach to individual coverage doesn’t work because individual health insurance is not a profitable line of business; insurers have known this for decades.

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