Wisconsin’s Tea Bagging Governor Scott Walker isn’t just out to take the rights away from public workers.

No, he’s got more in mind. Give him credit though, he’s at least thought this one through. He’s cutting Medicaid benefits to his citizens, BUT he’s increasing the amount of funeral expense money given to the indigent.

So, in “compassionate conservative” terms, you can go broke trying to stay alive – and the GOP won’t lift a finger to help with that – but when you die destitute, they’ll help get you buried and out of public view lickety split.

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?

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

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.

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.