Why don't rich liberals just fund abortions?

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Thursday November 12, 2009 · 5:04 PM PST

2009/11/12 · 17:04

The Stupak amendment is atrocious. Abortion should be covered by a universal health care plan.

That said, the alan guttmacher institute says that there were 1.29 million abortions in the US in 2003, and that in 2001, the average cost of an abortion was $487.

Multiply the two and you get $628,2300. Adjust for medical inflation and all the abortions in the US probably cost around $900 million in 2008. Let's assume if abortion were widely available, that utilization would increase by 50%. That's about $1.45 billion. That's not really that much money.

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Friday September 04, 2009 · 10:16 AM PDT

2009/09/04 · 10:16

Through a friend in the White House, I got an advance copy of the full text of President Obama's speech Tuesday. Below the fold

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 7:59 PM PDT

2009/09/02 · 19:59

so are Jim Cooper and NPR's editors.

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Monday May 11, 2009 · 4:51 PM PDT

2009/05/11 · 16:51

Progressives who favor a single payer program, such as Medicare for All, are frustrated by the current debate. Once again the "pragmatists" dominate the discussion, even though most of their ideas are anything but pragmatic -- absurdly complex, expensive and won't achieve universal health care. Single payer advocates, including physicians, have to commit civil disobedience to have their voices heard in Congressional hearings.

The savior is supposed to be the public option -- a private buy-in to Medicare that would prove the efficacy of public insurance. It's not horrible in theory, although the likelihood of a public option emerging from Congress being a fair test of public insurance is a long shot. Already Senate Democrats in the pocket of the financial services industry, like Chuck Schumer, are giving away the benefits of a real public option. But we shouldn't get too upset about that. The public option is the wrong bottom line. Our strategy needs to change, and we have much more power than we think we do. More below the fold.

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Political FACTS about torture - BHO's motives don't matter, take action

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 5:37 PM PDT

2009/04/20 · 17:37

Reading diaries and comments about the issue of accountability for torture it's hard not to notice a few things:

a lot of kossaks care deeply. Great! We need an organized constituency to fight for fundamental constitutional values.

commenters waste a huge amount of time discussing and arguing about things that just aren't true. Examples below the fold.

We're arguing about Obama's motivations and ignoring an enormous political opening which, if we are aggressive, can put overwhelming pressure on Obama to do the right thing.

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Thursday January 08, 2009 · 9:00 PM PST

2009/01/08 · 21:00

You know the insurance companies are nervous about health care reform when their pet politicians make perfectly contradictory arguments in the same New York Times article

Yet Sens. Michael Enzi (R-WY) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME) did just that in today's times.

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