via nevver:
Invade a Hospital, GOOD
Spangler's Log.
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02.09.10 2 years ago mrmattspangler
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09.23.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
A Doctor’s Healthcare Reform Roadmap
With all the information out there about the healthcare debate, I felt compelled to get my more detail on some solutions, so I interviewed my father to help shed some light on the subject. He is certainly a subject matter expert in this and it was a great chance to mine his knowledge and experience. The interview was published on the Huffington Post today.
A Doctor’s Healthcare Reform Roadmap: A Father-Son Interview
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09.15.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
I think Bill Maher said it best when he said, “we don’t need town halls, we need study halls”.
via livejamie:
People who claim that Obama is a communist don’t understand what communism is. People who claim that Obama is a socialist don’t understand what socialism is. People who claim that Obama is a fascist don’t understand what fascism is. People who claim that Obama is a Muslim don’t understand what Islam is. And people who support the Republicans because they’re capitalists don’t understand what capitalism is.
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09.04.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
My best friend and his wife just bought a new home in Brooklyn Heights. We were discussing it the other night and he had remarked how crazy he was that the thing he was spending more money on then anything else in his entire life, he looked at for about 20 minutes before deciding to buy it. For the fast paced NYC real estate market this is not un-common as great apartments (especially in Brooklyn Heights) go fast. This is a good chart that gives perspective on not only your home purchase, but what else people spend their money on.
In the context of the current healthcare debate, even if you combine the insurance section and the healthcare section on this chart its still less then transportation and pales in comparison to housing. It gives an interesting perspective on what the most important topics should be for public discourse around government regulation and intervention.
via hiten
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08.13.09 2 years ago mrmattspangler
Open Mouth and Insert Foot
via stever:
Stephen Hawking both British and not dead
“In perhaps the most amusing effort to discredit President Obama’s plan for nationalized health care - if not the most ridiculous - US financial newspaper Investor’s Business Daily has said that if Stephen Hawking were British, he would be dead.”
The right-wing nutjob who wrote the Investor’s Business Daily editorial did not know that Hawking is a UK citizen who lives in the UK. Furthermore, the writer didn’t know that Hawking has been cared for by the National Health Service for over 40 years. I did wonder how he could have assumed that Hawking is American. Then I read a comment somewhere that pointed out that Hawking’s synthesised voice has an American accent. I’d never heard of the Investor’s Business Daily before, but it must be staffed by idiots.
