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...Call Me the Idiot I am one of the 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? Ezra Abrams Newton, Mass...
BARACK OBAMA, vowing in a Jan. 25 interview with Diane Sawyer to continue to press for health care reform...
...only sure things in life, Benjamin Franklin should have said, are death, taxes and campaign-finance reform. Trying to keep money out of politics is like trying to keep a basement dry in New Orleans, which made the issue a perfect subject for the Supreme Court: nothing revs up Justices like a symbolic fight over an intractable issue. In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the court struck down certain limits on corporate campaign spending--upholding the First Amendment or selling American politics into bondage, depending on your view...
...Lebanon and solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. Syrians like to think of their country as the crossroads of the Middle East; they grew worried when Damascus simply fell off the itinerary of most major world players. More worrying is the country's dismal neo-Soviet-style economy, which needs reform and foreign investment if it is to create enough jobs for the country's young, growing and restless population...
...Baltimore, the House Republicans seemed hurt that the President wasn't listening to their "new" ideas. Unfortunately, most of these have the sophistication of policy seminars run by high school Libertarian clubs. One of their leading intellectual lights, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, has offered a Medicare reform proposal that should kill any chance he has of winning higher office: he would privatize Medicare and deliver unto the elderly vouchers that would gradually lose much of their value. This would save a boatload of money, of course ... but one wonders whether the party that gave the world "death panels" would...