Sara Robinson

So Rush Limbaugh has threatened to move to Costa Rica if health care reform passes. Costa Rica? Really? This is a country where the American-style health care reform that Rush would be so desperately fleeing is considered nothing short of criminally inadequate. In Costa Rica, they've got constitutionally-guaranteed cradle-to-grave socialized medicine. Not just single-payer, mind you; I'm talking real British-style socialized health care, the kind where your doctor works directly for the government.

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The GI has rewarded veterans for their service by giving them the foundations on which to build a comfortable and successful civilian life. But the Cons have apparently abandoned that noble goal. it's not hard at all to imagine a scenario in which this new relationship to our military creates far-flung changes that may undermine the stability of our democracy.

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