Go Wyden Go!
What If They Passed Single-Payer and Didn't Tell Anyone? - WashingtonPost.com : The Wyden folks quietly slipped in an amendment giving states enormous flexibility to experiment upward. Essentially, states can ask the federal government for a waiver that allows them to keep the federal funds they're receiving and do pretty much anything they want with them, so long as the coverage they provide is "at least as comprehensive as required under the Chairman’s Mark" . . . . If we don't end up with a public option at the federal level, at least have the ability for states to broaden the public participation in the system. The states are often considered, and allowed to be, crucibles of experimentation for policies like this. It's got the potential to do some real good.
That Game of Thrones article is really interesting! I hadn't really noticed the banking stuff in the books as much, but I like what they're doing with it in the show.
ReplyDeleteI love the curtness of all the bbc articles. They can never manage to fit more than a few lines into a paragraph. The bionic arm stuff is really neat, though. We talked about that a fair bit in my bioethics class.
It's funny - I really agree. In retrospect, the stuff about the Iron Bank was prominent in the books, but it really stands out in the show.
DeleteI agree about the BBC. Flowery they are not. The arm is cool as hell. They are also working on direct neural interfaces, so we are really damn close to true bionics.