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News Roundup: Typhoon Haiyan, ObamaCare, Dwayne Bowe
ecthompsonmd November 14, 2013

Typhoon Haiyan: If you are going to design a “perfect disaster,” you only need a few ingredients. You need a hurricane that is really, really huge. Secondly, you need an underdeveloped country with an overdeveloped population. Typhoon Haiyan was the perfect mix for a catastrophic disaster. Like most disasters, the initial reports were inadequate and overly hopeful. The Philippines needs help. They need a lot of help. It is hard for me to describe my disappointment in President Barack Obama. I simply don’t understand how he allowed his signature program to be sabotaged by naysayers and Republicans. I really don’t understand what

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Clinging to Garbage Health Insurance Policies
ecthompsonmd November 4, 2013

The funny thing about this health-care reform is for the last 3-4 years, we’ve lurched from one pseudo-disaster to another. Just think about it. We’ve gone through the socialized medicine craze – “this is nothing but socialized medicine, do you want to be Canada or France?” We have gone through the “President Obama is thwarting the will of the people” phase. Last week, we decided to enter the “Obama lied to the American people” phase. President Obama did say on multiple occasions, that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.” That was simply not true.

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Suzanne Somers and her break with reality
ecthompsonmd November 3, 2013

Early this week, the former Three’s Company star, Suzanne Somers, decided that she needed to enter the healthcare debate. I’m not sure what her qualifications would be. Maybe because she is a fitness guru… that qualifies her as an expert. Okay, I’ll go with that. She starts off with a statement that is guaranteed to upset or excite half of her audience. She writes, “First of all, let’s call affordable health care what it really is: It’s socialized medicine.” Seriously, is that the way we are going to start the conversation? That’s just about as subtle as that line from Saturday

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