This morning, a correspondent expressed the wish that "y'all would do something more about the health care bill — a sort of 'here's what to think about it': is it too much? too little? — because I feel like if this doesn't pass, we're all going to be burying each other in our backyards in about 10 to 20 years..."
Strongly agree! But also? Do not know where to start! I mean, Jesus Christ, even looking at the politics of it alone would require hours of synthesizing diverse materials and evaluating claims by competing interests for and against the plan. Fortunately, the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder, as reliable a dispenser of conventional wisdom as we've got these days, is on the case, at least as regards the maneuvering behind it. So go there. I'm gonna hunt me down some funny animal videos in the meantime!
Ha!
Home Burials Offer an Intimate Alternative
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/us/21funeral.html?_r=1&hpw
Mayo Clinic: "In general, the proposals under discussion are not patient focused or results oriented."
Unlike you, me, Congress or the President, at least someone at the Mayo clinic has read the House version that we're told absolutely has to be passed by next week.
http://healthpolicyblog.mayoclinic.org/2009/07/16/mayo-clinic%E2%80%99s-reaction-to-house-tri-committee-bill/
But that sentence you quote is nearly the entirety of the blog post? I don't think I've learned anything from that. And then the commenters go on to rant and rave about socialism.
What do the commenters have to do with the position taken by the Mayo clinic.
That's like assuming Choire likes women just because a few of us go on and on about bumpin uglies with Padma Lakshmi
The Atlantic thing is ok. (why such big blocks of text??).
Anyway, excellent primers for those with time to read:
Harper's "Sick in the Head"
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/02/0082380
Burying people in our backyards? Not bloody likely, if my own experience with using my barbecue as a crematorium is any guide. Stupid county health inspectors!
first they tell us it's the end of suburban american as we know it -- http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography -- now, four months later, we're burying ourselves in the backyard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_%27Burbs , anyone?
what else does tom hanks know that we don't?