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Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care th

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what theyve lost is the argument that we are a society. – Thomas Frank

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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a Near Great even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. – Thomas Frank

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War
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One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesnt work on this mirror principle, you dont have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesnt work that way. – Thomas Frank

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Acknowledging class was always difficult for New Democrats – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again. – Thomas Frank

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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. – Samuel Butler

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The I in illness is isolation, and the crucial letters in wellness are we. – Author unknown, as quoted in Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Rev

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Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget. – John Spratt

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Make sense who may. I switch off. – Samuel Beckett

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