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From strict income-protecting limits on the number of candidate physicians to patent protections for drugs (built on publicly funded research) to complete and utter disregard for efficacy research results and complete absence of effective consumer access to quality information (or even arrest and malpractice records of providers), the "market" in health care has the worst aspects of capitalism and soviet-style communism, all delivered with "Northern charm and Southern efficiency" (as JFK said of DC).

Ridin' Wyden (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

At the time, she was living in relative anonymity in a small soviet-style apartment in Krakow.

John Lundberg: The World Remembers Wislawa Szymborska John Lundberg 2012

April 6th, 2010 10: 53 am ET people in this country are tired of phony town hall meeting and staged political events, and labeling the opposition as violent threat makers, and the tea party as racist hate mongers is really reminiscent of old soviet-style politics at its worst.

Wasserman Schultz confirms threat, faces feisty town hall crowd 2010

At the time, she was living in relative anonymity in a small soviet-style apartment in Krakow.

John Lundberg: The World Remembers Wislawa Szymborska John Lundberg 2012

IMO the main effect is to make the UK NHS even more of a soviet-style technocratic provider than it already was.

Comparing Effectiveness of Health Care Procedures, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Pinko Potion is an explosion of socialism, a proletarian gift in a perfume bottle cut like soviet-style architecture.

What's That Smell? It's the NDP uncorrectedproofs 2008

By using their weird caucusing (which disenfranchises old people & working people due to the time commitment) and their soviet-style party bosses, they are about to again nominate an unelectable figure.

Exit Polls: Clinton gains edge among independents 2008

Beyond the obvious value of mind-bending fiction from the mind-bendingest master of them all, this little "chapbook" edition also contains some neat (fittingly soviet-style minimalist) drawings, and makes overall a nice package.

Charles Stross "Missile Gap" 2008

It strikes me that she was a necessary emetic to a post-war slide towards a soviet-style communism that the recent Labour government has now revived and continued.

Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

Pinko Potion is an explosion of socialism, a proletarian gift in a perfume bottle cut like soviet-style architecture.

Archive 2008-01-01 uncorrectedproofs 2008