Month: July 2009

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    July 25, 2009 at 11:37 a.m. SEATTLE TIMES Travel to Cuba Posted by Bruce Ramsey A reader writes: I’ve read with interest your July 21 column on your visit to Cuba. There are, as you noted, drab state stores where Cubans can use their currency to obtain basic necessities, like beans and rice, but the…

  • (NYT) Letters: The Public Option in Health Care Reform

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    Link to NYTimes.com article Re “The Pitfalls of the Public Option” (Economic View, June 28), in which N. Gregory Mankiw favored a “lightly regulated” private insurance system over one where a public option is included: Would the system he advocates include a requirement that private insurers accept all applicants? As long as private insurers are allowed to…