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- "Colbert's
Civil Rights MLK Day Writer's Strike-Busting Writerless Show — In Song."
... "[Stephen Colbert,] After paying his respects to Monday's debate
and busting out a pretty darn good Tom Cruise imitation, Colbert made a
segue which, in retrospect, was brilliant: Moving from [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate Hillary] Clinton and [2008 Election Democratic
Presidential Candidate Barack] Obama's bickering over who loved
Reagan more to the evidence provided by Tom Brokaw's book, Boom!
Voices of the Sixties, which, in addition to quoting Hillary Clinton
discussing how [former Republican President] Ronald Reagan finessed
the balance of his role "beautifully" on page 404, contains an early segment
devoted to the Reverend Andrew Young, the "last surviving member
of Martin Luther King's inner circle at the Southern Christian Leadership
Council," and lifelong, steadfast civil rights activist. Colbert got to
that — eventually — after first introducing a documentary-style segment
(in the style
of Brokaw's "1968" documentary, complete with soundtrack) about the
Charleston Hospital workers union strike of 1969, which was settled by
the young, er, Young, who negotiated with a vice president of the associated
Medical University of South Carolina — "the only administrator willing
to meet with Young was the newly-appointed vice-president of the medical
college, who had taken up the position just days before the strike was
called." The two worked behind the scenes to finally end the strike — and
on the hundredth day, they came to an agreement, awarding raises to the
striking workers." ... "That administrator? James Colbert — Stephen's
father." -By Rachel Sklar
-HuffingtonPost.com
Watch Colbert
Report:
 "A-It's
All About Stephen."
"B-Interview
- Ambassador Andrew Young."
"C-Let
My People Go."
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Kucinich -  Ron
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- "Colbert
Tops Kucinich and Paul in National Poll." ... "Colbert
tops GOP [2008 Election Republican Presidential Candidate] Rep. Ron Paul,
36% to 32%, while he outpaces Democratic [2008 Election Presidential Candidate]
Rep. Dennis Kucinich by 37% to Kucinich 32%. In both cases, Rasmussen found,
Colbert eats into their "base.""
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- "A
Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn’t Simplify It."
... "In his State of the Union address, [Republican] President Bush proposed
tax cuts to make health insurance more affordable for the uninsured. The
next day, Stephen Colbert had this to say on his show on Comedy Central:
“It’s so simple. Most people who can’t afford health insurance also are
too poor to owe taxes. But if you give them a deduction from the taxes
they don’t owe, they can use the money they’re not getting back from what
they haven’t given to buy the health care they can’t afford.”" ... "Just
so. As health economists have long known, market incentives induce private
insurers to spend vast sums to avoid people who may actually require health
care. This problem is mitigated (though not eliminated) by employer-provided
group policies. Because Mr. Bush’s proposal would steer people toward individual
policies, it would actually strengthen the incentive to shun unhealthy
people. Such people can now keep their insurance by not changing jobs.
But no private company would want them as individual policyholders at a
price anyone could afford." ... "That Mr. Bush’s proposal will not shrink
the ranks of the uninsured is not its most serious problem. Far more troubling
is its embrace of a system under which we spend more than twice as much
on health care, on average, as the 21 countries in which life expectancy
exceeds ours. American costs are so high in part because the reliance on
private insurance multiplies administrative expenses, currently about 31
percent of total outlays." ... "Most health economists agree that government-financed
reimbursement is the only practical way to control these expenses, many
of them stemming from insurers’ efforts to identify and avoid unhealthy
people. Canada’s single-payer health system, which covers everyone, spends
less than 17 percent on administrative expenses." ... "Annual health spending
in the United States currently exceeds $2 trillion. A single-payer system
that did nothing more than reduce administrative expenses to the levels
of other countries would save roughly $300 billion annually." -By
Robert
H. Frank -NYTimes
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