• health care debate
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Tonight's speech attempted to frame health care as a moral question. This seems to be the fundamental sticking point in the debate, does it not? Is health care a right or a privilege?

There seemed to be true common ground when the president spoke of making it illegal for insurance companies to discontinue care for "pre-existing conditions." But what was most disconcerting was something that Nate Silver pointed out in his live blog of the speech:

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• health care debate
• madness

Nate Silver does it again:

"When someone confuses these two things, you can be pretty sure they're just...well, confused. Just like this woman or these people. Nobody would ever, not in a million bajillion infinity years, ever mix these things up on purpose! Just send 'em over here and we'll get 'em straighted out!"

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