Politics of Purity

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Just when you thought the machinations of the healthcare industry couldn't be more frustrating, along comes Elizabeth Edwards at Thinkprogress to point us to another layer of sunshine on the number-crunching that makes already-stress-full circumstances—living with chronic disease—even more of a challenge. For women.

Please, follow the link and learn more, I'll wait til you get back...
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Health insurance actuaries actually sit down and push the beans around and decide that those of us who are estrogenally blessed should pay more for the privilege. Kinda fits that whole ying-yang of insurance companies paying for Viagra, but not birth control.

Edwards rightly takes McCain's health care plan to the woodshed for simply reinforcing more of the same ol' same ol'...with different labels.

So I gotta ask, why haven't you endorsed Obama yet, Elizabeth?

You say his plan isn't what you want? Not good enough? Doesn't go far enough?

As wife-of-a-cancer survivor to cancer survivor, though, Elizabeth, I gotta say, past is prologue. And it may be nasty to mention, but we've seen how McCain and fellow Republicans like the re-emergent Newt Gingrich treat women suffering major healthcare crises.

These guys are the real cancer, for all of us.

I hope you'll endorse Obama soon. His plan may not be perfect. He may need nurturing and encouraging people around him (like the medical teams our families have entrusted loved ones to). But like that first day out of bed after surgery, ya gotta take the first step.
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