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health care reform Archive
The Massachusetts Election Today Could Be Bad for Our Health
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsMassachusetts voters go to the polls today to elect the replacement for the late U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. Democrat Martha Coakley faces Republican Scott Brown. Coakley’s run a terrible campaign....
The Politically Deadly Problem(s) With The Insurance Mandate
Posted on January 15, 2010 | 30 CommentsI’m still waiting on the D.C. insider to tell me why a government mandate that all Americans buy health insurance from for-profit companies is not a silver bullet that will...
Health Care Denial as Social Control
Posted on January 11, 2010 | 9 CommentsImplicit in the contemporary American health care system is a threat: Conform and spend your life behaving yourself in limited jobs or we will deny you insurance and put your...
The Senator’s Letter
Posted on January 8, 2010 | 11 CommentsIt all started with an email from John Cornyn in my inbox, explaining why he was going to fight to the end to protect me from health reform. Where did...
Out With the Old Politics, In With the New
Posted on January 7, 2010 | 7 CommentsAs the curtain finally goes up on the election season one full decade into the 21st Century, our politic conversation remains hopelessly mired in the previous century. The complex problems...
Did I Wake Up in a Black Comedy?
Posted on December 15, 2009 | 7 CommentsCongress takes up health care reform. All agree the blame for the nation’s health care crisis falls mostly upon unscrupulous insurance companies who earn all their money by denying coverage...
Is the Health Care Debate Ruining Our Health?
Posted on December 9, 2009 | 7 CommentsIf you feel like I do, the ongoing health care debate has been confusing, wrenching and alienating. Such stress is, the docs tell us, bad for our health. So the...
A Public Option for Corporations, But Not People?
Posted on November 30, 2009 | 4 CommentsI’ve joked before that not far in the future, there will be Corporate Creationists who argue that God created corporations, that they could not possibly have evolved from human beings....
What A Wonderful World: An Allegory
Posted on November 23, 2009 | 10 CommentsIn 1968, not long after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy, Louis Armstrong went to the ABC Records studio to record “What A Wonderful World.” It...
A Message to the U.S. Senate
Posted on November 21, 2009 | 3 CommentsBig procedural test vote on health care reform today in the U.S. Senate. Here’s a message for them. UPDATE: The Senate voted to cut off the Republican filibuster of its...