Steven Brill´s Latest Work of Fiction

American Spectator ^ | 1/26/2015 | David Catron

[rootin tootin]

I put off reading Steven Brill’s new book, America's Bitter Pill, for much the same reason I procrastinate when it’s time to clean the gutters on my house. I was sure it would be a boring chore that would leave me yearning for a shower. A previous encounter with this writer’s work in a 2013 edition of Time suggested that this tome would contain a catalogue of canards about U.S. health care, a tendentious account of the tawdry political process that produced Obamacare, and some hare-brained theory on how to fix our medical delivery system once and for all. My forebodings were well-founded.

[a fool in paradise]

Once he had recovered, in other words, Brill decided that the hospital had charged far too much to keep him out of Forest Lawn.

Has he priced the cost of a funeral/burial lately???

[a fool in paradise]

Obamacare sucks, it was rushed through the Legislature and sold on a lie and pork. The President has retroactively altered it by executive decree.

It was not ready for prime time, it was not sound policy, and those who questioned the authority of those saying “pass it so we can find out what is in it” are NOT the bad guys.

If Obamacare is so wun’erful, why keep moving the goalposts?

It isn’t the Republicans doing that.

[a fool in paradise]

This is the same president who has more people on food stamps than ever before (upwards of 40% if I recall) and boasts of his wun’erful economy.

[USS Alaska]

I was in a clinic for several hours of tests last week and there was a Time magazine with Steven Brill's article, so while waiting, I read it.

This dumb bastard communist prick should have died and spared the world.

I won't ever read another article written by this dope.

[Dr. Sivana]

Stephen Brill? I haven’t heard that name for over a decade, when “Brill’s Content” was released with much fanfare and landed with a thud. I guess he’s like that snobby British chick who fails at everything she tries stateside, she won’t go away either.

[WayneS]

“In fact, Pelosi was simply promoting what she thought were the bill’s benefits, which, in her view, had not been discussed enough because the political fight over passing it was dominating the cable news networks.”

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"Oceania is at war with East Asia. Oceania has always been at war with East Asia."

.... at least until the time comes when Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

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Decent people saw Orwell's classic novel as a warning. The democrats adopted it as a training manual.