Make a Deal With Mary Landrieu

Health Care

New Orleans Senate debate is scheduled for tonight on Senator Reid’s patchwork quilt healthcare bill and as everyone head counts central figures become the ridiculous Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, the uncertain Blanche Lincoln preparing for a re-election campaign in Arkansas, and the go-with-the-wind Mary Landrieu from Louisiana, where I pull a lever. I’m betting we …

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Working Sick

Health Care

New Orleans Interesting piece in the Times today by Steven Greenhouse pointing out the obvious:  our national inability to provide paid sick days jeopardizes the health of our entire population and puts American citizens at risk of pandemics. Corporate America seems to be tripping over its communications message everywhere they turn.  They don’t want dilute …

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