There is a terrible cynicism to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s master Medicare plan. What the pair are banking on is the notion that anyone age 55 and older, who would be unaffected by it, doesn’t give a hoot about anyone 54 and younger.
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8/30/12
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Those Founding Fathers knew what they were doing. Checks and balances worked last week, as the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in a 5-4 decision that surprised pretty much everybody.
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7/3/12
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There are things we want and things we need. The want list is too long, but the need list is short and simple. We want good health and can’t live long without it. Coupled with that, we need the protection of health insurance.
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5/3/12
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Last week, the Supreme Court held three days of oral arguments on whether the landmark of the Obama administration, Obamacare, the controversial bill that overhauled our health care system, violated the Constitution.
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4/5/12
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On my last day of radiation, I drove up to the NYU Women’s Cancer Center and saw a man leaning against the front door, smoking.
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3/8/12
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Last week I woke up with the weight of the world on my shoulders. I soon realized that it was the weight of Big Brother government, and I never realized it would get so heavy.
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2/16/12
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The stakes in this election are too important to accept at face value the slick and often alarmist advertising that candidates put forward as Election Day nears.
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10/7/10
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Last week, Comedy Central newsman Jon Stewart announced a March to Restore Sanity, to be held in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 30. And . . . he wasn’t kidding.
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Randi Kreiss
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9/24/10
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Last week, 92 percent of Long Island school budgets won public approval. Aware of the public’s anger over rising taxes, most districts held their growth down to between 2 and 4 percent. Thankfully, the voters didn’t punish the children.
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Jerry Kremer
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5/28/10
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I never imagined that there would come a time in our nation’s history when Americans would be prohibited from free speech.
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Al D'Amato
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4/8/10
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