To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Observercast

ObamaCare, Part II

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH As I walked into the pharmacy, the technician who has kept track of all of my prescriptions for years was on an endless call trying to figure out who is going to deliver her baby and where. The good news: Her new plan, which fully complies with the Affordable Care Act, provides […]

Lessons Not Learned In Boston Bombing

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BY FROMA HARROP Airport gift shops throughout New England are piling “Boston Strong” T-shirts in vivid colors. “Boston Strong” became a rallying cry of solidarity after the terrorist bombing last year at the Boston Marathon. As the anniversary of the attack – and the next race on April 21 – approaches, emotional coverage of the […]

If Hypocrisy Were A Felony

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BY MARK SHIELDS To be fair, most Republicans have never hidden their distaste for campaign-finance laws that place limits on how much someone can give to a political candidate or campaign, or how much the candidate or the campaign can spend. The reform most consistently championed by Republicans and conservative editorial pages has instead been […]

Let There Be Light On Health Spending

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BY FROMA HARROP Foes of ObamaCare often frame such health reforms as “redistribution” schemes. They take money from hardworking Americans and give it to the presumably undeserving. My conservative friends are right that a lot of health reform is about redistribution. What they get wrong are the arrows on the real redistribution chart. Health care […]

Sniffing The Ethical Rot In Wall Street’s Culture

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BY JIM HIGHTOWER Not too many years ago, any news story about bonus money would’ve been about some 20-year-old baseball player – an up-and-coming superstar getting $100,000 or so on top of his salary as an extra incentive to join the Yankees, Giants, Red Sox or whatever team. Sportswriters dubbed them: “Bonus Babies.” How quaint. […]