0
By Erich Vieth on November 17th, 2009
Tom Tomorrow takes on Republican stall tactics
Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow takes a few swings at the Republican so-called approach to health care reform in “This Modern World.”
Category: Health Care Reform
By Erich Vieth on November 11th, 2009
Tear up the health care bill and start over.
I wrote a comment on this same issue last night, but I wanted to make it into a post as well, given the importance.
Marcia Angel, M.D., former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, is highly critical of the proposed “health care reform.” Although she admits that it accomplishes a few things, it is worse than doing nothing.
It throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system, with only a few improvements at the edges, and it augments the central role of the investor-owned insurance industry. The danger is that as costs continue to rise and coverage becomes less comprehensive, people will conclude that we’ve tried health reform and it didn’t work. But the real problem will be that we didn’t really try it.
Read the full post at Huffpo for Angel’s clear and understandable ideas for meaningful (and not corrupt) health care reform. I agree with Angel that the current bill is an industry-coddling joke and that it is worse than doing nothing, for the reasons she offers. The House bill has a few pieces of low hanging fruit (e.g., portability), but at great unnecessary expense and waste. We need to tear up this celebrated new bill (celebrated by the Democrats, anyway) and start over. For more on Angell’s ideas for reform, also see her recent appearance on Bill Moyer’s show.
By Erich Vieth on November 05th, 2009
Representative Alan Grayson makes the truth hurt.
Some would call it a stunt, but all indications suggest that Alan Grayson was spot on. Lots of people are dying because of the lack of health insurance. Many of those people live in Congressional Districts overseen by Republicans who prefer the status quo. Grayson simply added 2 plus 2, and it made the Republicans livid.
If they don’t like it, then they should do something about it. That’s how I see it. The solution is not to hide the facts that people in your district are dying from a problem that might have a solution but that you are not seeking any solution.
By Erich Vieth on October 06th, 2009
I’m behaving like someone who isn’t getting an answer to his question
This is a wild ride, but a lot was put onto the table. Even Dylan Ratigan’s phrase “corporate communism. Look what happens when you put Dylan Ratigan, Betsy McCaughey and Anthony Weiner into the same room:
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
