Dr. Wes is on a tear about President Obama’s speech; apparently, he didn’t spend enough time on malpractice reform. I suspect President Obama could have spent hours and hours on malpractice reform, and it would not have been enough. In any case, Dr. Wes thinks the reference to the 2006 article Obama co-authored with then-Senator [...]
Thu, September 10 2009 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
The Washington Post has an article by Jacqueline Salmon arguing that health care reform is driving a resurgence in evangelical political organizations. As far as the article goes, this seems to be the entirety of evangelicals’ objection to reform: After seeing their bread-and-butter issue of abortion take a back seat during the election last year, [...]
Wed, September 9 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
NPR ran a useful story on malpractice this morning. Here’s a snippet from the Kaiser Health News text version: Limiting lawsuits by itself won’t change a system that gives doctors a financial incentive to do more and more. But liability reform could still be useful, if it helps win doctors’ trust. The point is that [...]
Wed, September 2 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
Yesterday I decided to see what all the fuss was about, so I went to the “town hall” my Congressman, Jim Moran, held in his district. The district is pretty solidly Democratic, and our Congressman is definitely pro-reform. He even invited Howard Dean to speak at the town hall. Unfortunately, the event was clear on [...]
Wed, August 26 2009 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
Is Jon Stewart the best journalist in America? He seems to be the only one willing to attack head-on the monolith of bs that is Betsy McCaughey. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – Betsy McCaughey Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com This says it’s “part 1″, but there [...]
Fri, August 21 2009 » Uncategorized » 3 Comments
You know who I don’t envy right now? Billy Tauzin: soulless, helpless, heartless, and now – apparently – friendless. His former Congressonal colleague, John Boehner, wrote Tauzin an angry letter criticizing his compromises (.pdf) on health care reform on behalf of PhRMA: When a bully asks for your lunch money, you may have no choice [...]
Tue, August 18 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
You should know by now that the health care bill under consideration in the House will not established “socialized” medicine in this country. There is no single-payer element (a la Canada), nor anything that would force doctors to become employees of the governmen (as in Britain). These ideas are simply not being discussed. Now I [...]
Thu, August 13 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
You may have heard about the kerfuffle over Investor’s Business Daily’s claim* that People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. The obvious objection to this is that, of [...]
Wed, August 12 2009 » Uncategorized » 2 Comments
Sarah Palin is totally opposed to the right-wing caricature of health care reform: The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level [...]
Mon, August 10 2009 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Following on my last post, I thought I might share the post that got nuked. If you want to talk about health care in your online community, feel free to borrow and adapt this language to suit. I started off with a brief summary of my circumstances – a sentence or two – and then [...]
Sat, August 8 2009 » Uncategorized » 1 Comment
A novel crime against decency by Duncan Cross
