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Why Your Health Care Costs So Much

May 10, 2011
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Medical-Cost-2hdr

Why is health care so expensive in America? Hint: It ain’t TORTS, it ain’t illegals, it ain’t because we’re fat. [Tip of the Hat to Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture, who always builds or finds the coolest graphs. #nerd] Via: Medical Billing And Coding I managed some pretty cogent writing on the health care…

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UNSPEAKABLE: 81% of Americans Would Tax Rich to Cut Deficit

March 19, 2011
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PolicyGrinder.com Graph: 81% say Tax the Rich

When a Feb. 24 NBC/WSJ poll asked Americans to pick the top ways that they would tackle the U.S. deficit, 81% chose to add a surtax on income over $1 million. I repeat: 81% of Republicans, Democrats, tea partiers and independents said, “Tax the Rich.” Folks, you couldn’t get 81% of Americans to agree that…

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