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Nobody said Healthcare reform was easy, or cheap. But, if one cares to notice, there is movement towards a very different dynamics of patient/provider economics of care. Check the article below, courtesy of The New York Times. Then check the rest of my normative considerations. Consumer Risks Feared as Health Law Spurs Mergers Consumer advocates fear the new health care law could worsen some problems it was meant to solve. http://nyti.ms/c889mS Two things: I'm uncomfortable with all this talk of cost-cutting and savings. The language of healthcare should be less of this and more of getting care to the ones who need it the most, especially to those suffering from chronic diseases. Which reminds me, where is the combative aura of Healthcare Reform supporters? Why is it that silence predominates in this group? Or am I mistaken? Where are the dynamics that should transform this antagonistic fight into an agonist discussion? Second, I can understand the concerns that come with petitioni...

Here's a quote that has resonated all this week: "the single most important thing we want to achieve" is defeating the president in 2012. Just a friendly reminder to the American voters about the kind of "republicans" they put in charge. I'd also like to point out to democrats that this is a self-inflicted wound. And to republicans (if there are still any left at this Conservative party called the GOP) you have lost the political center in the party and in national politics. Your obsession with winning for the sake of power and your intransigent despising of government opened the door to something worse and, totally, anti-republican. Can you deal with it? And as V said in the movie, "at the moment of looking for someone to blame, all we have to do is look in the mirror". The voters' desperation alongside their preference for fast-food politics and policy got them exactly what they wanted: gridlock, with a side of bad-faith politics and further ...