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SARAH PALIN, former governor of Alaska, admitting that her family used to go to Canada for medical treatment when she was a child; Canada has a single-payer system, which Palin opposes...
...sign up for it. But the public option has assumed an outsized political significance, thanks to the fact that it has become a flash point between the left and the right. That is in part because both see it as a potential precursor to a government-run single payer system, similar to those of Canada and some European countries...
...about the issue, I’m familiar with the problem of asymmetric information and the meaning of terms like “rationing” and “end-of-life counseling.” I could write you a list of countries that have a single-payer health-care system or drop a casual reference to the “Baucus bill...
...Chi’s] engine is unbelievable,” Clark said. “I think he’s everyone’s favorite payer. He plays the way you would love every player always to play...
...partly by the many recent articles and letters in the Des Moines Register. Lifelong Republicans have vowed never to vote for him again. Iowa ranks third in the nation in percentage of people over 85 and, no doubt, in Medicare recipients, so we know what a government-run, one-payer system can do, and most of us are demanding that a public option be included. So when Grassley puts on his flannel shirt and poses for pictures on a red tractor in his campaign for re-election next year, he will face an uphill battle. Priscilla Brown, Cedar Falls, Iowa...