Clinton did the same stuff, FYI. So, you could just say that Obama is continuing Bush's continuation of Clinton's anti-privacy policies.

Yes, you can argue that it's really Congress that is doing this, but there is a lot of coordination, especially when you are talking about a Congress controlled by the same party.

And there isn't a single "right wing" or "left wing" view on this. What it boils down to is a statist view, and an anti-statist view.

BTW, did you click the link to the Atlantic article? That article is really good, and proposes a real fix to the health care system. It should be seriously considered.

What I meant was that in the popular media, the term "death panels" has gained traction. While it may be used in the context of trying to debunk its assertion, in the long run, the widespread use of the term undermined the political momentum of the proponents of the Obama/Dem plan. So much so that they promptly removed the provision that didn't exist.

She is no dummy; that was a brilliant little bit of political guerilla fighting.

Speaking of research, Trig is a boy. And really classy move there, mocking the disabled.

I suppose you have to cut them some slack. The indoctrination in government schools is unrelenting these days.

But, yeah...it is kind of like "Slashkos."

That's why I hardly post these days. Or, for that matter, visit. Sad. This was a really cool place in the nineties. 'Course we had to ride a stationary bike with a generator uphill both ways in a snowstorm just to keep our Compaq Portable Computers running long enough to post a one-liner.

I know all you slavishly leftist Slashdotters of the current age think that Sarah Palin is a moron. But, she's got everyone using the term "death panels," doesn't she? Maybe she's not so dumb, after all, eh? The answer to the shortcomings of private insurance bureaucracies is not bigger bureaucracies, it's putting the decision-making back into the hands of patients.

If the GOP had done this, there would be a 1000-post article here. Instead, a couple of items in the firehose. Well, all you oh-so-smart Obama voters...here's your change. This was introduced by a Democrat, and is co-sponsored by another Democrat, and a liberal Northeast Republican. Not that the Republicans are much better. But I stopped even reading this site because of the devolution from what it once was to a conservatism-bashing nuthouse.