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Crossroads

The Payer; Will Call; the Tune

Congress' health care bill will not, repeat not, order old people to be pushed toward a no-fuss exit. Nothing in the proposals President Barack Obama is now pushing will command the government to decide who isn't worth treating. Well-intentioned bureaucrats will be thinking about it, though. That's worrisome.

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Redistricting Why Do Legislators Get to Pick Their Own Voters? Making More Legislative Districts Competitive Is a Worthy Goal. To Get There, Redistricting Needs to Be Taken Out of the Hands of Those Who Benefit with Job Security by How the Lines Are Drawn.

Left to its own devices, the state Legislature will redraw legislative and congressional districts, as it is obligated to do every 10 years after each U.S. census, to protect incumbencies and to make districts that skew toward one party or the other skew even more. This is a prediction on the order of foretelling that the sun will rise in the east and set in the west.