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The Republican Governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, proposed the following for a national health-care policy:

Insurance reform. Congress should establish simple guidelines to make policies more portable, with more coverage for pre-existing conditions. Reinsurance, high-risk pools, and other mechanisms can reduce the dangers of adverse risk selection and the incentive to avoid covering the sick. Individuals should also be able to keep insurance as they change jobs or states.

Problem: The… Continue

I'm just absolutely
baffled as to why Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin consider it
a good idea to insist that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki be
removed. First, his removal won't
improve anything. Second, does America really
want to show the w… Continue

In The Deputy
by the German author Rolf Hochhuth, the question of what the Roman
Catholic church should have done about Nazi persecution of the Jews was
raised forcefully. The book acknowledged that the Roman Catholic
church faced the very real possibility of extinction, but asked what
the purpose of the church was. Was it not better for the church to
cease to exist in Germany rather than to continue as nothing more than
an interest… Continue

Needlenose
went to the YearlyKos Convention and has some interesting things to say
about impeachment. Basically, he thinks we need about 10-15 more
percent of the population on our side in order to make impeachment
work. Worth taking into consideration as he's one of those who
thinks Dubya is the worst president ever.

Dave Lindorff tells us:



In
a curious coincidence, the day that this site published an article on
the
string of steps that this government has taken to put in place the
legal
niceties to prepare for a potential declaration of martial law,
including a
sidebar on the possibility of an assas… Continue