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Health Care Reform: It’s Our Turn, Texas!
Posted on April 16, 2010 | 3 CommentsTo read the newly released Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) “Dear State Medicaid Director” letter re: New Option for Coverage of Individuals, click here. “We just passed a... -
The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Posted on April 4, 2010 | 7 CommentsLet’s take the very, very long view of America’s decision to make health care available to eight million or more vulnerable and uninsured children. The crude political compromises that led... -
A Socialist Primer: Rick Perry, Health Care & the Governor’s Race
Posted on March 29, 2010 | 5 CommentsI’m wondering what it’s going to take for my former colleagues in the Texas press corps to call out Rick Perry for using the term “socialism” over-and-over to describe the... -
The Hollow Men: GOP Now Attacks What It Once Proposed in Health Care
Posted on March 25, 2010 | 1 CommentGov. Rick Perry and other GOP leaders around the country have whipped the kooky Right into such a frenzy over health care reform that they are spitting on congressmen, threatening... -
Compassionate Sanity Comes to America’s Health Care System
Posted on March 22, 2010 | 2 CommentsA century-long effort to bring some compassionate sanity to America’s health care system was passed by Congress last night. Lo and behold, the hammer and sickle is not flying from... -
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
Posted on March 21, 2010 | 4 CommentsHuman kindness is overflowing, And I think it’s going to rain today. –Randy Newman There is no better accompaniment to the vote on health care reform than Randy Newman’s “I... -
Marcelas’ Mission: Young Man Wants to Save Others from Mom’s Fate
Posted on March 11, 2010 | 1 CommentI called a committed right-wing activist the other day and asked, “Do you support taxpayer-funded fire departments?” Angrily, he said, “No. Why should I pay to put out a fire... -
Beyond the Palin: She Got Her Health Care in Canada
Posted on March 8, 2010 | 7 CommentsSarah Palin admitted in a Canadian interview that her family used to go to Canada to receive health care. That would be Canada’s single-payer health care system. The vocal opponent... -
Health Means Life; Health Means Freedom
Posted on February 23, 2010 | 7 CommentsLife and Freedom are moral issues. It is time for Democrats to talk about health in those terms, beyond just policy terms like health insurance reform, bending the cost curve,... -
Where’s the Movement?
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 13 CommentsIntro In forming his administration, President Obama abandoned the movement that had begun during his campaign for deal-making and a pragmatism that hasn’t worked. That movement is still possible and...