Many Americans assume the new health care reform act will benefit mostly the poor and uninsured and hurt everyone else, according to polls. As Matt Yglesias wrote, “Basically, people see this as a bill that will take resources from people who have health insurance and give it to people who don’t have health insurance.” Those who still oppose the reform say that people ought [...]
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 | ING to be broken up in wake of bail-out. The US government should do this also. The big banks are too big to not fail. And the failure has already happened. Related articles by Zemanta Geithner still worried about recovery (dailyfinance.com) US Treasury backs plan for banks to make ‘living wills’ in case of collapse (telegraph.co.uk) US ‘Slashes Top [...] Let’s all hope that by next year’s Human Rights Day, Guantanamo is closed, and torture and warrantless eavesdropping are no longer S.O.P. for the U.S. Government. Because regardless of how Condi Rice might object, the U.S. is guilty of civil rights abuses, human rights abuses, and torture: The International Committee of the Red Cross found “cruel, inhumane and degrading” treatment of detainees at [...] |      | ||||
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