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Never felt so relieved to get back from a vacation as I did a couple of weeks ago. It's 1993 all over again Democratic health care reform advocates, reeling from soaring new cost estimates and subsequent Republican rhetorical gains, found encouragement from a New York Times/CBS poll released over the weekend. Letters to the Editor Who's calling the shots now? When he was running for president as a candidate for change, Barack Obama said: "Our energy problem has become an energy crisis because no matter how well-intentioned the promise -- no matter how bold the proposal -- they all fall victim to the same Washington politics that has only become more divided and dishonest; more beholden to the powerful interests that have the biggest stake in the status quo." Arguments for public option are feeble WASHINGTON -- To dissect today's health care debate, the crux of which concerns a "public option," use the mind's equivalent of a surgeon's scalpel, Occam's razor, a principle of intellectual parsimony: In solving a puzzle, start with the simplest explanatory theory. |
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