Weighing Health Care Reform

Weighing Health Care Reform

Behind the spectacle of town hall brawls, death panel paranoia and pundit jabber, there is a real effort by powerful people to change the way Americans receive and pay for their health care. Nearly everyone agrees that the industry needs reform, but questions over what role the government will play and how any of it will be paid for has the nation bitterly divided.

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Health Care Reform and Anti-Semitism

Rush Limbaugh, vilifier in chief

If you have been watching the health care “debate” you must be aware that it has turned into a grotesque contest on who can come up with the most outrageous Nazi comparison. This is not the first time, of course, that Hitler and Nazism have been used as props by those who, out of arguments, want to convince the other party that they are right. I used to just shrug my shoulders when faced with such people, but this time it’s different. Because now we are not dealing with some “fringe elementsԗnow we are dealing with a movement that is supported by the second most important party in this country, the GOP.

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