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.
Those are some crazy car crashes....
ReplyDeletePretty interesting debate about censorship. I'm pretty far on the side of suck it up, but there are certainly real situations where that's not appropriate. I feel like my teachers usually mention something about that king of thing before they show it, typically. My bioethics prof was very careful to let us know when we would see something graphic. I think the notification at runtime is a pretty reasonable way to go.
Yep - I agree. I think there is a commonsense approach to that kind of warning that is quite reasonable. The over application of it, though, tends to have the opposite of the desired outcome: with warnings everywhere they all become meaningless.
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