The Republican Plan for Health Care Reform

As far as I can tell, the Republicans are opposed to a public insurance option because it would be a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy that rations mediocre care with long waiting lists and no patient choice...

...and that would represent unfair competition to private insurance companies.


So, yeah, that makes perfect sense.

The dangers of folk wisdom

Folk wisdom killed my aunt. She used to tell us all the time: never go food shopping when you're hungry. Well, one day she woke up hungry and there was no food in the house. They found her three weeks later, on the kitchen floor. She had starved to death.

Let that be a lesson.