Health Care Reform
Health Care: Right or Responsibility?
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Neither. It’s an expense. Health care is an economic commodity, just like food, clothing, shelter, cell-phones, cable television, and X-box 360s. And the health care system is simply an industry, or rather, an amalgamation of industries that provide preventative, emergency, maintenance, and palliative care; pharmaceuticals and supplies, and insurance coverage. It might seem a bit [...]
Helen’s Halloween Costume
Saturday, October 31st, 2009Here’s a photo of me in costume: It was the scariest thing I could think of–Terrifying, isn’t it?
The Sins of Silence
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln _____________________________________________ You can say a lot of things about President Obama, but you can never accuse him of slacking in his momentum to get things done. It helps that he has an army of supporters in Congress–there is strength in numbers. [...]
The Health Care “Crisis”
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Percentage of Americans without Health Insurance 15.5% (Centers for Disease Control) Percentage of Americans without a cell phone: 18% (TECHnews) Percentage of Americans without a computer in the home: 20% (Nielsen) Percentage of Americans without Internet access: 43% (Nielsen) ____________________________________________________________ Universal Health Care advocates would have us believe that most Americans do not have health [...]