• Ugly Overload: Caught Between Lemur and Monkey
  So, tarsiers are those guys that always look freaked out.
  (tags: animals.secret weird humor.unintentional photo nifty)
• GKAMW.jpg (2100×1628)
  Detroit in the thirties.
  (tags: nifty photo Detroit history olde.timey landscape)
• Harry Reid, and What Happened to the Public Option | Robert Reich's Blog
  'So the compromise was to give all Americans the option of buying into a "Medicare-like plan" that competed with private insurers. Who could be against freedom of choice? Fully 70 percent of Americans polled supported the idea. Open to all Americans, such a plan would have the scale and authority to negotiate low prices with drug companies and other providers, and force private insurers to provide better service at lower costs. But private insurers and Big Pharma wouldn't hear of it, and Republicans and "centrists" thought it would end up too much like what they have up in Canada.

  So the compromise was to give the public option only to Americans who wouldn't be covered either by their employers or by Medicaid. And give them coverage pegged to Medicare rates. But private insurers and … you know the rest.

  So the compromise that ended up in the House bill is to have a mere public option, open only to the 6 million Americans not otherwise covered.'

  (tags: healthcare disappointing democrats right.wing corporation)

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