Did I really just hear Barack Obama say in this debate that he believes health care should be a right?
I am having some really big problems with that statement, folks… He may have just lost my vote.
Added: I’ve added a few more thoughts on this, post-debate, at TMV.
There’s been an excellent debate / discussion going on about school vouchers (here, here, and here), and the reasons they’re being resisted by some (many?) folks. Unions, and their motives / purposes, are interesting topics, but I have a separate question altogether.
Megan McArdle wrote (on the subject of school vouchers):
1) A voucher system which required […]
I’ll be doggoned. Texas, of all places, is going to break ground on an issue that some social conservatives aren’t happy about: the vaccination against a leading cause of cervical cancer. From the Houston Chronicle:
AUSTIN — Gov. Rick Perry ordered today that schoolgirls in Texas must be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes […]
In 1993, the Clinton administration tried to pass a universal health care plan. There were a number of flaws with that national health care proposal — not least that it was employer-based and rooted in HMO’s (something I work assiduously to avoid) — but it was, at least, an attempt to wrestle the problem to […]
In Tuesday’s SoTU address, Bush will be playing to a tough crowd; the national audience is well and truly ticked off at him. Thus, I’m not particularly surprised to read that he’s planning to talk about issues other than Iraq, like energy, immigration, and health care. Today’s New York Times has a preview of the […]