The Health Care Debacle – What It Means

Emotions have run high on both sides of the issue.  Is access to health care a right, a privilege, or a commodity?  The answer, it seems, depends upon where you stand.  Today, as the U.S. Congress continues to thrash through the process of considering the health care bill, accusations fly from both sides, with Senator [...]

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The H1N1 Vaccine Shortage: A Failure of For-Profit Health Care

As the Senate prepares to take up the issue of health care reform, the Republican Party is gearing up for a fight to the finish, a fight to defeat any attempt at improving our health care system.  It is a desperate struggle the Republicans are waging, desperate because it is about money – lots of [...]

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The Baby Boomer Crisis

It was inevitable.  For the past forty or fifty years a bulge in the U.S. population, known as the Baby Boomers (because they were born in the aftermath of World War II) created a moving spike in the U.S. economy. This huge group of people needed more schools, and more schools were built.  They needed [...]

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Organize Me

If there was one thing I didn’t expect when Barack Obama was elected President, it was the way our every day political processes would be transformed. Everyone knew that, in the old days, he had been a community organizer.  It was also clear that his campaign organization was far superior to that of John McCain.  [...]

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50 Million People Without Health Care Await A Deadly Pandemic

I’m not talking about some third world country, I’m talking about the United States.  Approximately 50 million Americans have no health insurance and now face the prospect of being turned away from for-profit hospitals if they are in need of treatment for swine flu.  So why is that a concern?  Isn’t that also the way [...]

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