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...antireform liberals Joe Klein disparages in "Village Idiots" [Jan. 11]. While the value of the health care reform bill is debatable--30 million people may get coverage that may or may not be worthwhile--I can't understand why anyone would not be outraged that the government is forcing them to buy private insurance from an industry that routinely pays CEOs seven figures while denying sick, dying people coverage. How is that not outrageous...
Klein needs to get out more. The failure to preserve the public option is an affront not to the left but to the base. Progressives are not demanding that everything be thrown out. Keep the regulations and break up insurance monopolies. Move the financial aspects of the bill to reconciliation, and institute Medicare for all with a 51-vote majority. That is a rational response...
...Bill Merkes...
Joffe worked on the first issues of the review, which was founded in 1966 following the passage of the Voting Rights Bill in 1965, said Gordon J. Davis, a fellow editor...
...referred to in his State of the Union address as the national “deficit of trust,” he needs to engage the average American’s concerns of economic foul play more directly and more vividly. As Obama negotiates with Congress on a jobs bill and other long-term recovery efforts behind the scenes, he should use the bully pulpit to fight the forces that impede his agenda in the open. This year, Obama should fully embrace the role of the self-sacrificial, morally-driven protagonist of the political theater...