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• • 06 Feb 10
  • 11:39 am

  It's quite simple: California NEEDS single-payer because it's the only way to mitigate out of control health care inflation occurring because Wellpoint has a monopoly in health care insurance. Brokers report that their Blue Cross subsidiary just enacted 35% average back-to-back annual premium increases in the individual market, even in the face of 800% 4th quarter profits! and that it plans to start increasing premiums more quickly. Single payer cuts costs because takes out the 20% insurance overhead, requires no profits, plus gives volume purchasing power in things such as Rx drugs. I even wrote a paper making a case in …

  Posted to Pushed by Unions, Single-Payer Passes Calif. Senate

• • 01 Jan 10
  • 7:31 pm

  "Simon joins a recent spade of books on the middle class..." Please lean what words mean before you use them!

  Posted to Our Coffee, Ourselves

• • 13 Sep 09
  • 12:07 pm

  It's ironic that Megan Tady should grouse about "astroturf" groups, when in fact she works for one herself. "Free Press," a DC lobbying group, carries water for Google -- a large, monopolistic corporation -- and is lobbying to have the Internet regulated in ways that would benefit Google and prevent new companies from being able to compete with it. The so-called "Internet Freedom Preservation Act" would do just this. In particular, the bill would prevent a newcomer from buying services that would accelerate delivery of its content to consumers. It thus would prevent newcomers from being able to deliver their data …

  Posted to Will 'Astroturf' Groups Block Net Neutrality Reform?

• • 08 Aug 09
  • 6:13 pm

  The increase in population in the US is a direct result of Immigration. The US would have a significantly lower population if were not for Immigration legal and illegal. If anything white Americans need to have more children just to compensate for the third world invasion we have witnessed. The same goes for Europe.

  Posted to The Poop on Population

• • 10 Aug 09
  • 2:33 pm

  Charter schools are great for disadvantaged students. The teachers unions are already fucking up too much of the educational system. Can they please not rape this too?

  Posted to We’re Public ... No, We’re Private