The Conscience of a Liberal

10.

Kaiser Family Foundation, op. cit., exhibit 1.11.

11.

Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey, 2005, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/ surveys/surveys_show .htm?doc_id=367929.

12.

Paul Krugman and Robin Wells, “The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It,” New York Review of Books 53 no. 5 (Mar. 23, 2006), http://www.nybooks.com/articles/18802.

13.

William Kristol, “How to Oppose the Health Care Plan—and Why,” Wall Street Journal, Jan. 11, 1994, p. A14.

14.

For Fox News, see http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/05/fox-news-universal-health-care-breeds- terrorists/. For pundits’ attempts to make the same case, see http://rawstory.com/news/ 2007/Conservative_ bloggers_try_to_ link_Michael_0702.html.

15.

Matthew Holt, http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/ the_health_care_blog/2005/ 07/policypoltics_w.html.

16.

The ads are now available on YouTube, http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dt31nhleeCg.

17.

Ezra Klein, “The Health of Nations,” American Prospect, May 7, 2007, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_health_of_nations.

18.

Commonwealth Fund, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care, May 2007, http://www.commonwealthfund.org/ publications/publications_ show.htm?doc_id=482678.

12 CONFRONTING INEQUALITY

1.

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785, http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/ founders/documents/ v1ch15s32.html.

2.

Irving Kristol, “Income Inequality Without Class Conflict,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 18, 1997, p. A22.

3.

Robert Frank, Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich (Crown Publishers, 2007), pp. 3–4.

4.

“Suites for the Sweet,” Newsweek International, July 2–9, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/ 19388720/site/ newsweek, part of a special report on “Secret Habits of the Super Rich.”

5.

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, “What’s Hurting the Middle Class,” Boston Review, Sept./Oct. 2005, http://bostonreview.net/BR30.5/ warrentyagi.html.

6.

Tom Hertz, Understanding Mobility in America (Center for American Progress, 2006), http://www.americanprogress.org/ issues/2006/04/ b1579981.html.

7.

Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (Doubleday, 1913), Downloaded from Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14811/14811-h/14811-h.htm.

8.

“Tax Breaks for Billionaires,” Economic Policy Institute Policy Memorandum no. 120, http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/pm120.

9.

See, for example, Jessica Holzer, “Conservatives break with GOP Leaders on a Tax Bill,” The Hill, July 18, 2007, http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/conservatives-break-with-gop-leaders-on-a- tax-bill-2007-07-18.html.