Doctors oppose US health plan

Posted by bruni on August 18, 2008

The Massachusetts healthcare programme widely seen as a test case for universal health coverage in the US faces mounting opposition from doctors who say the reform is failing.

More than 250 physicians in the state have signed an open letter warning that the healthcare plan, which was signed into law in April 2006 by Mitt Romney, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, is “already proving fiscally unsustainable”.
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Good mid-length article on the actual behaviors and biases of the media

Posted by bruni on August 17, 2008

Why Obama Could be in Trouble
By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Posted on August 7, 2008, Printed on August 7, 2008

It might seem unlikely that the United States would elect John McCain to succeed George W. Bush when that would ensure continuation of many unpopular Bush policies: an ill-defined war with the Muslim world, right-wing consolidation of the U.S. Supreme Court, a drill-oriented energy strategy, tax cuts creating massive federal deficits, etc., etc.

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oil and the euro are in a freefall

Posted by bruni on August 11, 2008

the euro tooks its biggest plunge today in 8 years and oil is down to $116

all this is bad news for the tire inflation guy
By OT’s logic this means that Europe will disintegrate.

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The McCain campaign is in no way desperate.

Posted by bruni on August 08, 2008

He left out Latin America!!!!

4th negative ad of the week.
Jesus, even Republicans have to be embarrassed by the way that McCain is running his campaign.
I saw that yesterday. I gave up completely on McCain and am just waiting for the debates so we can see what substance McCain actually has. If I were Obama, I would play his 2000 ad about being attacked by Bush and him saying he’ll take the high road.
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