The Public Option for Insurance – How about One for Banks Too?

In many of America’s large cities there are tall skyscrapers, and if you look at who owns the tallest of the skyscrapers you will often find that they are owned either by a major bank or a major insurance company.  If you care to think about that for a few moments I’m pretty sure you’ll [...]

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The Solution to U.S. Health Insurance: Outsource It

The barons of American industry discovered long ago that they could get people in other, less well off, countries to do factory work for less money than what Americans wanted for pay. It all started with the outsourcing of American jobs within the country itself. Good paying jobs in the textile and other industries migrated [...]

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Obama’s Health Care Public Option – Poison Pill or Panacea?

It was only a week or two ago that the Obama administration was letting it be known that their plan for a Public Option was, in itself, an option.  Maybe a co-op sort of health plan thing would be just as good, they were saying.  They were flexible. Let’s just all work together and get [...]

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Health Care Reform – Are the Wheels Coming Off?

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the American people so fired up – at least a significant portion anyway.  The town hall meetings that are being conducted are being invaded by coordinated groups of Republican protesters who clearly, desperately, believe that health care reform will bring about the destruction of the American way [...]

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The Problem with President Obama’s Health Plan

The fundamental problem with the President’s health insurance plan is that it is an insurance plan. So what’s wrong with that?  Shouldn’t everyone be insured?  Maybe, maybe not. Everyone should be able to get their medical needs attended to in a way that they can afford, but that doesn’t necessarily equate to giving everyone an [...]

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