Same Old, Same Old...Tax Revolters, Tea Baggers
The Tax Revolters burst onto the national scene amid an inflation-battered economy[in the late 1970s]. They blamed “big government” for what ailed America, and they offered a simple remedy: cut taxes. Lower taxes, they promised, would get average Americans back on track.....And [...]
Title courtesy of Gina Kolata, the excellent science writer, in the NY Times Nov 22, where she shows the timeline of back-and-forth recommendations on screening mammography to detect Breast Cancer (BrCA).
Like archeologists arguing endlessly over the same set of bones, cancer specialists, it can seem, have been [...]
Harvard Med School study shows that lack of access to healthcare killed many more U.S. veterans in 2009 than the wars in Afghanistan (155 fatalities) and Iraq (~ 314):
The analysis produced by two Harvard medical researchers estimates that 2,266 US military veterans under the age of 65 died [...]
Props to Merrill Nelson, co-sponsor of the Fair Boundaries Initiative, for a great editorial in the Trib:
Rarely do Utah voters have the opportunity to make as significant an improvement to state government as that presented by the initiative petition to establish an independent redistricting standards commission.
Support for [...]
I'm with Howard Dean on this:
The bottom line on healthcare reform is that it is not worth doing if it is not done right....Subsidizing Americans to buy private health insurance without giving them the choice of a more rational and less expensive system is simply pouring money into' [...]
I'm with Howard Dean on this:
The bottom line on healthcare reform is that it is not worth doing if it is not done right....Subsidizing Americans to buy private health insurance without giving them the choice of a more rational and less expensive system is simply pouring money into' [...]
Rep. Jim Matheson, pseudo-Democrat of Utah's 2nd Congressional District, announced Friday that he will line up with the rest of the Utah Congressional Delegation in voting against healthcare reform. KSL reported
Utah Congressman Jim Matheson planned a series of amendments to the health care reform bill. It was a [...]
Rep. Jim Matheson, pseudo-Democrat of Utah's 2nd Congressional District, announced Friday that he will line up with the rest of the Utah Congressional Delegation in voting against healthcare reform. KSL reported
Utah Congressman Jim Matheson planned a series of amendments to the health care reform bill. It was a [...]
