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health care reform Archive
Health Care Reform: It’s Our Turn, Texas!
By Mary Lowry | Posted on April 16, 2010 | 2 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 law that doesn’t do much for rich people, but really helps poor people.” –Leonardo Cuello,...The Lion Sleeps Tonight
By Glenn W. Smith | 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 to passage of imperfect health care reform might have obscured a grand achievement: an end...
A Socialist Primer: Rick Perry, Health Care & the Governor’s Race
By Joe Cutbirth | 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 insurance reform Congress passed last week. Either Perry and reporters covering him don’t know what...
The Hollow Men: GOP Now Attacks What It Once Proposed in Health Care
By Glenn W. Smith | 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 violence and even home invasions of Democratic representatives. It’s cynical and ugly, and just when...
Compassionate Sanity Comes to America’s Health Care System
By Glenn W. Smith | 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 capitols across the land. Instead, it’s care and security for millions of our neighbors who...
I Think It’s Going to Rain Today
By Glenn W. Smith | 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 Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” a song that mourns our lack of compassionate action...
Marcelas’ Mission: Young Man Wants to Save Others from Mom’s Fate
By Glenn W. Smith | 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 of someone else’s home?” Well, I asked, how about police departments. “Hey, if people want...
Beyond the Palin: She Got Her Health Care in Canada
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on March 8, 2010 | 6 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 of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal...
Health Means Life; Health Means Freedom
By George Lakoff | 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, types of exchanges, etc. Health means life. If you get a major illness or injury...
Where’s the Movement?
By George Lakoff | Posted on January 25, 2010 | 12 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 needed now. Here is a look at what is required, and how a version of...