5 Articles

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Optional Medicare for businesses?
(1 comments) An Optional Medicare system for businesses that eliminate the unnecessary middleman bureaucracy costs of the current healthcare system. Choice plus competition! What more can right-wingers ask for?

Thursday, November 22, 2007
Health care and the free market
(7 comments) Politicians prefer privatization for one and only one reason: private companies can give campaign contributions and public entities cannot. Just ask those who pocket the money from the insurance and healthcare industries but never get a penny from Medicare. We don't need mandated insurance, we need mandated health care. Simple as that.

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Perpetuating a corrupt corporate system
Just like corrupt CEOs have taken over many corporations and changed the rules to let them drain the company, so have our politicians changed the political rules to drain the taxpayers. Business leaders who would not accept corporate corruption, are willing to accept, even participate in, political corruption. How long can this country survive under a corrupt political system? Ask the people in Burma.

Sunday, October 14, 2007
Paying for health care is not rocket science!
(9 comments) It never ceases to amaze me, the amount of energy that can go into a project just to avoid doing the right thing, and reforming health care is at the top of that list. The best, simplest, least costly, most effective thing we could do is expand what has been working so well for 50 years, Medicare. You get sick, you get care, and the caregiver gets paid. Guaranteed. Nothing could be simpler.

Sunday, August 12, 2007
Quality health care will soon be a luxury few can afford
The handwriting is on the wall, and it doesn't paint a pretty picture for health care in the years to come.