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Greg Kapphahn

Alexandria, MN
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Posted on 01/30/13 at 12:12 pm in response to What Dayton’s budget guru learned from Mike Tyson

Considering that, under the leadership of former Gov. Tim Pawlenty, and their recent two-years stint in control of the legislature,...

our Republican friends did not perform a single deed that demonstrated their interesting in protecting, caring for, or spending government money to assist in the lives of and care for the poor and middle class, nor even for sick puppies and kittens,...

I can only take as COMPLETELY DISHONEST and MASSIVELY HYPOCRITICAL that they now protest that...

Posted on 01/30/13 at 02:05 pm in response to What Dayton’s budget guru learned from Mike Tyson

Because I really, really, really want it to be true.

But REALITY is on the other side (I know, that nasty old "liberal bias" that reality seems to have to "conservatives.") Where this has been studied, it has been found that tax increases generally have very little impact on hiring, nor do companies routinely move from higher tax to lower tax states.

In my experience the people who claim that high taxes have destroyed their businesses or prevented them from hiring staff (or...

Posted on 01/30/13 at 12:25 pm in response to What happened, Wisconsin?

Senators Thompson and Ortman would have done in Minnesota exactly the same things the Gov. Walker has done in Wisconsin,...

which certainly would NOT have helped the poor, the middle class, or sick puppies and kitties.

(Then they could probably have gone on to their great reward, a cushy, very-well-compensated job at some financial sector-sponsored think tank or PR firm like our former governor did .)

Posted on 01/30/13 at 12:46 pm in response to Benghazi as metaphor: More lessons for our politicians

That the reason behind the Republican's desperate search for a scapegoat to blame for the Benghazi tragedy is quite simple,...

the public must NEVER, EVER be allowed to connect that tragedy with the ("cut fraud and waste") budget cuts the GOP forced on the State Department.

It is sad that the mainstream media participates in the continuous efforts, on the part of the GOP, to blame the victims of their budget cuts for their own misfortune (in this case the State Department...

Posted on 01/30/13 at 08:44 pm in response to Benghazi as metaphor: More lessons for our politicians

We STILL don't know who knew what, when (any claims to the contrary are clearly without supporting evidence),...

we don't know who exactly, may have been doing the misleading (if we can even call giving out the best information we had at the time an attempt to mislead),...

nor do we actually know WHY Benghazi was attacked, WHO, exactly did the attacking, nor WHO may have ordered such an attack.

Why some of us expect absolute and instant clarity regarding events in...

Posted on 01/29/13 at 12:09 pm in response to Coming soon: Three days of gun hearings

Regarding the health insurance exchange. I can only hope that those who are setting up the criteria for the exchange are developing clear, consistent requirements regarding what must be IN the policies that are sold,...

perhaps a three-tier system could be developed featuring 1) bear-bones (but adequate), coverage, 2) somewhat expanded coverage, and 3) Considerably expanded coverage.

What the exchange simply MUST have, however, is requirements strict enough so that customers...

Posted on 01/28/13 at 09:22 am in response to 'No go' on McKinley for Lonnie Dupre

At the choice and objectivity of the sources "Professor Wolf" has consulted in his "research."

The reality is that Minnesota was the first state in the nation that started pursuing and allowing school choice. Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly clear that the results have been decidedly mixed and have, in some cases facilitated "white flight" of students to richer, less integrated suburban schools.

What I sense as the subtext for Professor Wolf's approach to...

Posted on 01/28/13 at 09:05 am in response to New regulations of compounded medicines mean fewer options at higher prices

Since you do not propose one, I can only suspect that you would like to keep business as usual for "compounding pharmacies."

Which works just fine until people start dying because some of the existing compounding pharmacies have turned themselves into something more akin to large-scale pharmaceutical manufacturing companies,...

while convincing inspectors/regulators that they need little or no oversight because they're just like the pharmacists at small town corner drugstores...

Posted on 01/28/13 at 03:02 pm in response to New regulations of compounded medicines mean fewer options at higher prices

and what's happening with shifting Avastin from larger to smaller containers, not to mention what the New England Compounding Center was doing with the products which caused fungal meningitis (because they contaminated them),...

is that both cases deal with INJECTABLE liquids, which require a far higher level of care and represent far more danger to patients when they are contaminated than do the pills and liquids designed to be taken by mouth that the average pharmacist moves form...

Posted on 01/28/13 at 03:07 pm in response to New regulations of compounded medicines mean fewer options at higher prices

and what's happening with shifting Avastin from larger to smaller containers, not to mention what the New England Compounding Center was doing with the products which caused fungal meningitis (because they contaminated them),...

is that both cases deal with INJECTABLE liquids, which require a far higher level of care and represent far more danger to patients when they are contaminated than do the products designed to be taken by mouth that the average pharmacist moves form larger...