Mitt Romney on Health Care: A Particular SpinBy KEVIN SACK The Republican ex-governor is trying to draw nuanced distinctions between his Massachusetts law and the federal legislation that shares many of its features.Read Article
Obama is bashing on the brick wall of unlogicIf the President’s health Bill fails, everyone loses except shameless vested interests — and opportunist RepublicansGiles Whittell In the first of two recent conversations with despairing Americans, a successful professional from Montana listened patiently while I said the NHS wasn’t as great as it was cracked up to be by people like Michael Moore.“Hmm. OK,” he said. “How about this? Over the past 25 years my employer has paid about $250,000 [£165,000] in premiums for health insurance for my wife and I, for about $25,000 worth of care. Who got the other $225,000? Don’t tell me something isn’t wrong here.”The second conversation was with the owner of the oldest continually operated coaching inn in North America, a romantic time capsule in the hills of northern Virginia. She said she could hardly bring herself to talk about President Obama and then talked about him at length. “I see him destroying our country every day,” she said. “Take healthcare. Last year I needed surgery on my knee. My insurance didn’t cover it. Then I needed post-operative care and the insurance didn’t cover that either.”Her name was Rachel. We should all sympathise with Rachel, whose “good” leg looked as if it was going to need surgery pretty soon as well. We should also be ready to sympathise with Barack Obama in case he meets her and proves unable to resist the urge to bang her head against one of her 300-year-old brick walls for being so unbelievably obtuse.The argument tearing at the insides of the American body politic this week is between two different sorts of logic. President Obama’s is the logic of Bentham. He is a technocrat in search of a solution to a problem that consumes 18 per…
Microsoft and Yahoo! search deal given green light US Department of Justice and European Commission approve 10-year deal between internet giants. Read Article
Douglas Healey for The New York Times; Rob Bennett for The New York TimesBrant vs. Brant: Divorce Celebrity StyleBy LAURA M. HOLSON The split between Stephanie and Peter Brant has turned into a tabloid tale of infidelity, drug use and charges of theft and spyingRead Article
