Healthcare and Canadian Dreaming

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'Does this mean that the American way is wrong, and that we should switch to a Canadian-style single-payer system? Well, yes. Put it this way: in Canada, respectable business executives are ardent defenders of "socialized medicine." Two years ago the Conference Board of Canada - a who's who of the nation's corporate elite - issued a report urging fellow Canadians to bear in mind not just the "symbolic value" of universal health care, but its "economic contribution to the competitiveness of Canadian businesses."'

-- Paul Krugman for The NY Times

Thinking of our Canadian friends, one thought it might be nice to tag at least the latter portion of Mr. Krugman's discussion on healthcare policy. Krugman understands that our dominant ideology doesn't make the Canadian solution possible in any near term, going for the pragmatic solution of taking what steps we can in that direction - going for Kerry!

( Krugman excerpt and an Update )

Healthcare and Canadian Dreaming

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'Does this mean that the American way is wrong, and that we should switch to a Canadian-style single-payer system? Well, yes. Put it this way: in Canada, respectable business executives are ardent defenders of "socialized medicine." Two years ago the Conference Board of Canada - a who's who of the nation's corporate elite - issued a report urging fellow Canadians to bear in mind not just the "symbolic value" of universal health care, but its "economic contribution to the competitiveness of Canadian businesses."'

-- Paul Krugman for The NY Times

Thinking of our Canadian friends, one thought it might be nice to tag at least the latter portion of Mr. Krugman's discussion on healthcare policy. Krugman understands that our dominant ideology doesn't make the Canadian solution possible in any near term, going for the pragmatic solution of taking what steps we can in that direction - going for Kerry!

( Krugman excerpt and an Update )

On Lying and Power

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When it's coming from above you in the pecking order, it is not lying. It's just politics.

-- Monk

Monk somehow started thinking about lying, and about how sometimes one is powerless to do anything about it except to accept that fact and go on. Then the obvious came to mind but in an apperceptive glow.

On Lying and Power

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When it's coming from above you in the pecking order, it is not lying. It's just politics.

-- Monk

Monk somehow started thinking about lying, and about how sometimes one is powerless to do anything about it except to accept that fact and go on. Then the obvious came to mind but in an apperceptive glow.