Ok kids- I’m working on Superjumbo 2: Arguments against universal healthcare (and why they are a load of crap)
In the mean time here are some hot brains to drool over:
What’s there not to love about Greg Palast? He’s old school investigative reporter with a background in economics. He broke the news about purging the black voters in Florida during the 2000 election. He makes me remember that journalists can actually still be investigators instead of overpaid press-release readers.
George Monbiot is just hot and brilliant. I loved Manifesto for a New World Order.
Joe Conason: writes for Salon. He’s straight forward and with none of the milquetoast qualities that dems are known for (I wish I could say wrongly known for, but they seem to have forgotten how to bite)
As for third wave feminism, I love Jill from Feministe. She’s as girly girl as I am (with a love of Bumble and Bumble) but still kicks misogyny in the ass on a regular basis.
I first discovered Samantha Power while watching her talk about Sudan on the Charlie Rose show. She was talking about how all the agencies were saying they were having trouble getting access to the country to prove that there was a genocide going on. While all these people were hemming and hawing- she simply walked over the border from Chad and took some of the first photographs documenting the tragedy to get published in the western press.
Arguments against universal healthcare (and why they are a load of crap)
do you REALLY want the government making your health care decisions for you? cause that’s what worries me.
Sigh, dear wonder, it’s rather a bit more complicated than that.
If you are well off, you can always buy better healthcare of whatever standard you like. If you are not, well currently you can’t really afford healthcare, so your ‘decisions’ are mostly irrelevant.
The problem is that at the moment, due to the rampant profiteering and strategic incompetency of your HMO’s, you Americans pay on average 2-3 times as much for roughly the same amount of healthcare, and as a bonus get to tear your hair out into the bargain.
Whereas in relatively sane countries, people pay a couple percent extra tax, the government provides a decent basic standard for everyone, and those of us who can afford it buy something better. The only people really unhappy about it are the corporates who want to rip us off with their health insurance schemes, and loony-bin candidates that have somehow fallen for the old “all tax is theft” canard.
wonder was stating what one of the atrguements is- not using that argument (and you can tell by her inclusion of the load of crap bit).