Category Archives: Health Care

According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a substantial majority of doctors support a public option; add in the number who prefer single-payer, and the status quo loving group is a small minority.

Spotted around the law school:

This post from Orcinus really captures the true horror of Canadian health care.

Most notably, it explains the connections between good privacy laws and good health care.

Fafblog! the whole world's only source for Fafblog. finds the silver lining in an ugly cloud of bigotry at a health care town hall.

Unfortunately, the silver lining is this:

On the bright side, though, the Mayan zombie gods should wipe us all out in just a couple years

Crooks and Liars, Exclusive: The Rest Of That Barney Frank Town Hall Meeting With The Teabaggers:

Anyone who is aware of all Internet traditions has by now seen the footage of Barney Frank taking down the Larouchie who asked him if he would support a “Nazi policy” by asking her, “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” But Rep. Frank was in rare form that night, standing up to the uninformed shrieking of the right and offering a real lesson in how to argue with conservatives. Rep. Frank's office provided C&L with the tapes of that town hall meeting in Dartmouth from last week, and I put together a sort of greatest hits reel.

I wanted to illustrate this with a picture of what is probably my all-time-favorite US campaign poster, Frank's c. 1980-82 campaign poster with a rumpled candidate and the slogan “neatness isn't everything” … but strangely I couldn't find a copy of the image online.