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Unless you can't get over the concept that other countries do things differently - and sometimes better - than we do it in the US, give this article a read.

Cuban doctors are renowned for being well-trained and well-skilled and we could do worse than to listen to the top docs in this hemisphere.

You may have missed it amongst the racist screeching against it but health care reform did actually pass. Here are some early benefits.

Also, a timeline of how the whole package is expected to roll out.

In a just world, this is happening across the nation:

The CSM thankfully eschews the conservative crazy talk and gives a surprisingly rational assessment of what health care reform actually does.

All that Tea Bagger talk about how it's supposedly unconstitutional to mandate that people get health insurance? Yeah, um, tell that to the original "socialist" President, John Adams, who made all sailors - even the private company employed ones - sign onto the plan.

Seeing as he had some say into the original framing of the Constitution, I think he had a better sense of what is or is not constitutional than your average racist southerner. Right?

Want to know why this country needs health reform? This story says it all. Blue Cross/Blue Shield rejected a NEWBORN'S medical claim for a pre-existing condition. Says his father:

"How can he have a pre-existing condition if the baby didn't exist until now?"

Indeed. The insurance bastards also tried to refuse to add the baby because both parents were not covered by them. The family pays for insurance for their kids, but neither are covered.

The little guy had the surgery and is fine, though the family is likely to be buried in debt. But, hey, BCBS is gonna turn a profit this year. And that's what matters, right?

A nice check on how, what and when health care reform will come.

A recap of the ongoing terror activities of the Tea Bag Traitors.

It isn't enough to whip your cohorts into breaking windows a la Kristallnacht. Said mouth breather is a member of an Alabama militia and is, of course, cashing government disability checks while railing against said government.

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There's even more hatred. Bart Stupak is putting up with really vile phone messages. CBS covers the tame ones with many of the more offensive ones in this bit on Rachel Maddow's show last night - along with other vile behavior.

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Rep. Louise Slaughter has been informed that snipes are coming for her. She has already had the lives of her children threatened.

Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri had a coffin left outside his house. Nothing subtle there. Tea Bagging Traitors say it was left after a "prayer vigil". Hell, at best that's littering in poor taste. in reality it's a death threat.

Once again, these are the compassionate conservatives?

These cretins swear they aren't violent.

John McCain blows off the danger of his party's rhetoric, much like he did Palin's filth in 2008.

The NRCC says that threats against people's lives aren't a big deal.

There's a map tracking the violence. Hopefully it doesn't get any more additions.

As Maddow points out, much of this stupidity is driven by the GOP leadership itself.

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If you don't have your head up your ass or possibly jerking off to Glenn Beck, you can use this online tool to see how health care reform will affect you and your's.

This made me laugh.

And this just made it better.

Looking back at the psychosis of health care reform opponents in the closing days last week.

I love this.

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If only Ted Kennedy had lived long enough to see the health care bill pass. I doubt he'd have liked much of it but as a stepping stone to making America a better place, he'd have voted for it nonetheless. He's been on the mind of many in these closing days. Hopefully those hypocrites in the GOP who dared call him friend are choking on the bile their duplicity has churned.

David Frum is a diehard conservative. He uses their talking points, their stupid names for honest legislation, and I probably would check outside before believing his assertions that the sky was blue.

But he isn't an idiot. Misguided, but not a fool.

So, when he reads the tea leaves over the end of the health care bill, it may behoove other conservatives to pay attention when he pronounces doom and gloom for the GOP.

For once, I hope he's right.