Aug 12 2009

Back in the USPS

At his dog-and-pony show on health care — excuse me, health insurance — reform in Portsmouth yesterday, President Obama denied that adding a government plan to “compete” with private insurance plans would drive insurers out of business, creating a single payer system by indirection. Obama argued that private insurers should have no problem “competing” [...]

Aug 11 2009

Does Linda Douglass know about this? part 2

Barack Obama’s denial that he has advocated a “single payer,” Canadian style health care system may not have been the most comic moment of his Portsmouth dog-and-pony show. He also disputed the notion that adding a government plan to “compete” with private insurance plans would drive insurers out of business, indirectly creating a single [...]