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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Required Reading

Ezra Klein goes Full Metal Ross Perot and hauls out the charts and graphs that demonstrate just how messed up our health care system is.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/the-three-most-important-health-care-graphs-in-the-world/2011/04/13/AFtU1E6E_blog.html

Put another way: If the Clintons had passed a universal, single payer health care system in 1993, we might not be hyperventilating over the budget deficit today.

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