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...obtain at a certain level for everyone in the country, and we're not there yet," says Dr. Raphael Darvish, founder and medical director of Concierge Medicine in Brentwood, Calif. "Beyond that, there are things people should be able to pay extra for." Given the insurance companies' strict rulebook, says Darvish, neither patients nor doctors have much choice. "I think the incentives are all wrong," Darvish says. "They don't pay for you to make a phone call. They don't pay for you to send an e-mail. They don't pay for you to find an interesting article...
...superdelegates are Democratic bigwigs and elected officials. Totaling 796 people, they are composed of the entire Democratic Congress, all Democratic governors, some big-city mayors, high-ranking members of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and various others whom I cannot pick out from the DNC’s lengthy rulebook...
...what about Rule #5 of the delegate selection rulebook? (I may be the only person who has read this horribly long and boring document): “Discrimination on the basis of ‘status’ in Democratic Party affairs is prohibited.” Again, the DNC would not comment on the obvious hypocrisy between this rule and the existence of superdelegates, who are merely high-status Democrats...
...coalition Romney so eagerly courted no longer controls the fate of the GOP, at least in the early voting states - which have favored Mike Huckabee, a populist who trumpets the occasional role of larger government, and John McCain, a legislative maverick who does not always play by the Republican rulebook. Romney tried to run as the establishment candidate, only to find that the establishment no longer held the power...
...Drawing from the Playbook The truth is, for all his talk about inventing a new kind of politics, Obama has always understood that the old rulebook cannot be completely thrown out in a nomination fight - not if you want to win. It is true that he has told people things they don't want to hear: he has championed merit pay in front of teachers and fuel-efficiency standards before automakers. But Obama also sees political necessity to pander, proposing, for instance, that senior citizens who earn less than $50,000 be exempt from income taxes. That stance could explain...