Not Robin Hood. Not Lionhearted. Just Wise.

I think the leeches are the people who benefit from the military fighting in the Middle East to ensure your supply of oil, the NIH studying flu viruses and developing vaccines, OSHA keeping their workplace safe, and the Department of Labor limiting their work hours to a manageable level. The people who drive over federally funded bridges and interstates and accept federal student grants, and then claim the federal government is unresponsive and worthless, and say they don’t want to contribute to it, in fact, say they want to take it apart and return us to some kind of backward Articles of Confederation when we agreed in 1789 that that was a dumb idea.

Dropping It

In competing with countries who have solid national health care systems, Americans have one hand tied behind their backs. Or maybe I’m wrong.

More Fear and Loathing, or, Why Health Care Discussions Are So Scary

I wrote the other day about Americans having no balls. What I meant by that was: I feel that we should give reforming our health care system a serious, dramatic, bold, brave try. I’m going to add, today, that my rah-rah goes out with a full understanding of why people are afraid. I would like […]

Monster in the Closet

Somehow, we continue to dither about how or if to change our health care system. We have shown great leadership at some times in our history, but when I read about how we compare with other countries today, I worry that we are stuck in fear. The other industrialized nations of the world have shown […]