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36. Dear Mr. Douthat: Forcing people into the clutches of vampire insurance is not "liberalism"

Wed Mar 28, 2012, 08:23 AM

Mar 2012

- or maybe it is "liberalism" but it sure ain't "progressive-ism. "

The insanity of people demonstrating to be allowed to pay the vampire insurers is so crazy that it's enough to make this atheist believe we're reached "the end of days" as the nutcases like to so fearfully predict.

From the moment we started talking about the "affordability" of health care in individual, rather than collective societal terms we lost.

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