Conservative columnist calls for single-payer

[Shrek]

The term doesn't actually appear in the piece but based on his argument it's pretty clear that's what he means.

Link goes to a conservative website. Don't click if that bothers you.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/445746/there-no-such-thing-free-hearing-aid-even-texas

Who really believes that the most efficient way for the state of Texas to provide a benefit of $1.2 million to $4 million per annum to the families of 0.2 percent of the state’s newborns is . . . laundering that money through insurance companies?

If you want to provide the benefit, then, for Pete’s sake, write the damned check.

(SNIP)

We are a very, very rich country. We can afford all sorts of things: food for the hungry, health care for the indigent, education for children, and hearing aids for families that for whatever reason cannot manage to scrape together $1,000 a year to invest in the well-being of their own children. (Those $5,000 hearing aids last for about five years, meaning that their real cost over time is less than the $1,200 a year typical American family spends on cable television.) I myself am all for doing many of those things, though I do not think that government very often is the best instrument for getting them done. But if we are going to use government, then, by all means, let’s use government in the most honest, transparent, and straightforward way we can. Forget the insurance mandate and just write the check.

We can afford the hearing aids. We cannot afford the stupidity.

[elleng]

1. 'Who really believes that the most efficient way

for the state of Texas to provide a benefit of $1.2 million to $4 million per annum to the families of 0.2 percent of the state’s newborns is . . . laundering that money through insurance companies?'

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Which one? I wont click.

How dumb are we, the best people alive, the most honest and decent people say we need single payer, and nobody says a word

A rightwinger says it and it is news.

[Shrek]

3. Kevin Williamson

But it's an opinion piece and not presented as news.

[babylonsister]

5. That's because we're so used to lies from them.

A goper told the truth? I blinked.

[OKNancy]

4. I wondered why David Frum tweeted this

Link to tweet

and this

Link to tweet

[babylonsister]

6. I find it so disturbing that

newsmax seems to be gaining credibility for anything.

If dt wants to call for universal, I'm still in. It's that important. But that won't happen because he's never been known to do the right thing, ever.

[uponit7771]

7. Conservative are going to beat the Democrats to the punch on single paye I know this is a good setup