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		<title>Health care is making me sick</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the health care reform debate enters what appears to be the home stretch (albeit not for the first time), what Washington is offering us (the citizenry) boils down to a choice between bad and worse. The legislation now under consideration, both the Senate bill and the slight variation on same presented as &#8220;Obama&#8217;s bill,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care and disinformation</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/12/health-care-and-disinformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s inbox contained a political e-mail message forwarded by my girlfriend&#8217;s parents. They&#8217;re not especially political people; their sensibilities (to the extent they&#8217;ll even discuss them) tend toward a somewhat mushy moderate conservatism, the kind of folks who instinctively vote Republican, even though the party&#8217;s center of gravity has moved far away from them. Indeed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Baucus bill looks to be DOA</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/the-baucus-bill-looks-to-be-doa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(And thank heaven for that.)
So Sen. Max Baucus&#8217;s Finance Committee has finally released a health care &#8220;reform&#8221; bill, months after every other committee charged with the task. (Or a &#8220;Chairman&#8217;s Mark&#8221; version of one, at least—i.e., something actually readable by laymen [pdf]).
The predictable result? It&#8217;s awful. Any Democrat who would vote for a bill that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s speech and the &#8220;reset button&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/obamas-speech-and-the-reset-button/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, where did I leave off?
&#8230;That&#8217;s right, there was a speech Wednesday night. A pretty significant one, in fact, for reasons I described at some length.
What of it, then?
I can&#8217;t deny that it was a very, very good speech. Rhetorically powerful. And yet, what it says about the direction of health care policy, and thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The inverted class warfare over health care</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/the-inverted-class-warfare-over-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even as Dick Armey&#8217;s dick army continues to do the disruptive dirty work of its corporate-funded organizers (an onion Rachel Maddow has ably peeled for public view), even as its footsoldiers continue to spout fear-drenched talk-radio-esque bullshit about euthanasia, baby killing, and the evil plans of that Fascist Socialist Muslim Negro in the White House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on health care and hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/some-thoughts-on-health-care-and-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One could go on at literally exhaustive length about the ins and outs of the current &#8220;health care debate&#8221; in Washington, but I&#8217;ll try to avoid that. The media and the blogosphere have provided a constant play-by-play in terms of both substantive policy and, even more, political strategy. (Jonathan Chait at TNR has been particularly [...]]]></description>
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