Posts Tagged “healthcare”

Newt and the Hypocrites

Jason15th Aug 2009Politics, , , , ,

Great band name, huh?  It should probably be Newt and the Lying Hypocrites, but that is beside the point.
On a serious note, the More »

On French Healthcare

Jason22nd Jul 2009Politics, , ,

Came across this article today:
My whopping $32 emergency room visit in the land of socialized medicine
AmericaBlog covers his recent visit to a French More »

Can they really be this dumb?

Jason11th Mar 2009Politics, , , , , ,

I can’t help but think the current Republican Party really is Beavis and Butthead, as Krugman stated a week or so ago. The More »

So that's why prescription drugs cost so much…

Jason5th Jan 2008General, Politics, , ,

From “The Consumerist”:http://consumerist.com/340948/drug-companies-spend-almost-60-billion-on-marketing-30-billion-on-research-what:
bq.. drug companies pour $57.5 billion into marketing, dwarfing the comparably paltry $31.5 billion devoted to research.
Billions of marketing dollars go More »