Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by Single-Payer Logic

TruthOut, The Nation by 9 Leslie Savan | Aug. 21, 2009 (News)

Something rather remarkable happened on Tuesday's Morning Joe. Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York pointed out that the health insurance industry has no clothes, and Joe Scarborough, after first trying to spin it some gossamer threads, broke down and said, By God, you're right, this emperor is a naked money-making machine Full Story »

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Lynn R. Willis
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 by Lynn R. Willis - Aug. 22, 2009

This is good journalism. The piece tells the story of an interview in which the case was made, with compelling logic, for single-payer healthcare. My only complaint with the piece is that I don't know what "dobbering" is. Neither my dictionary Widget nor Merriam-Webster knew what it was, either.

Single-payer makes sense to me, but until I saw this piece I never felt that comfortable defending it. Now I do. Hee!

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