Tag Archives: Obamacare

What Anna Karenina Would Say to the GOP

By Robin Bates | Published: October 25, 2013

Perfect advice from Tolstoy for the GOP.

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Kid Fight in Congress

By Robin Bates | Published: September 25, 2013

At times, Congress looks like two kids squabbling in “Tom Sawyer”–only in this case, the stakes are much higher and one side refuses to act like an adult.

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Are There No Emergency Rooms?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 7, 2013

Scrooge asks, “Are there no workhouses?” Today’s GOP asks, “Are there no emergency rooms?”

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Life as a Stage Coach Ride

By Robin Bates | Published: March 25, 2013

America is in many ways like the stage coach rides described by Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding.

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Medicare Politics and Gullible Oysters

By Robin Bates | Published: August 23, 2012

Like the oysters in “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” Americans are being lied to about GOP plans for Medicare.

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Obamacare: Forcing Soufflé on Everyone

By Robin Bates | Published: March 30, 2012

Is the Supreme Court playing Potter to Obamacare’s George Bailey? Will Woody Allen’s version of French tyranny (soufflé and croissant at every meal) be the end result?

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