Special Commentary Health Care Reform in the United States Part VII
This series of commentaries now enters its fourth year in a continuing effort to achieve two goals. First, we hope that lay readers are provided insight on the latest efforts toward health care reform in the United States. Second, we hope that through the lens of health care reform those same readers can contextualize the competing… full story HERE »
Special Commentary – Health Care Reform in the United States
In this ongoing analysis of health care reform, we took a brief diversion (La Cuadra, Volume V, Issue 4, July / August 2011) to look at the political context in which the debate takes place. And we’re proud to note that we spotted the ascendant Herman Cain phenomenon early on (slightly after Jon Stewart, but… full story HERE »
Special Commentary – Political Realities and Surrealities in Los Estados
Presidential candidate Herman Cain, at the Family Leader Presidential Lecture Series in Pella, Iowa, promised that in his Administration no congressional bill longer than three pages would be signed into law. It’s on YouTube, if you want to see it. If he is elected president, he will only pass “small bills” that “you’ll have time… full story HERE »
Special Commentary – Health Care Reform in the United States – Part V
The Spring 2011 version of the health care debate has taken on the look of Russian matryoshka dolls, although one measures the risk of conspiracy theory in even mentioning the term. Health reform has become nested within a broader debate about Federal deficits and national debt, which, in turn, is nested in an emerging debate… full story HERE »
Special Commentary – Health Care Reform in the United States Part IV
As Barack Obama stepped to the microphone, Joe Biden, with a stage whisper said, “This is a big deal.” He added an expletive for emphasis. And a big deal it was. Our endless health care debate had somehow become law.
At least six twentieth-century Presidents had advanced comprehensive health care reform. All had failed.
President Lyndon Johnson’s… full story HERE »
Special Commentary – Health Care Reform in the United States Part III
The cable chatter about Scott Brown’s surprise – to everyone but Massachusetts voters – victory in the US Senate race to succeed Edward M. Kennedy focused primarily on how it might affect the debate on Health Reform in the United States. Sixty Democratic Senate votes in favor had become fifty-nine, and in the math of… full story HERE »
Special Commentary – Health Care Reform in the United States Part II
The December 2009 edition of the Archives of Ophthalmology reported an explosion in the incidence of myopia during the past thirty years. In 1971-72, twenty-five percent of Americans aged 12-54 had myopia. By 1999-2004, the number had jumped to 42 per cent. We are becoming nearsighted. The big picture is increasingly out of focus. That’s… full story HERE »
Special Commentary – Health Care Reform in the United States Part I
While Congressman Joe Wilson’s, “You lie!” distracted public attention from President Obama’s September 9 health reform speech to the Congress, the President’s real fib that evening went almost unnoticed.
“I’m not the first President to take up this cause” (without a doubt), “but I am determined to be the last.” No way! Whatever happens this year,… full story HERE »
Book Review – The Predator State
The Internet “gives us instant free communication at the price of universal surveillance.” This parenthetical observation has nothing to do with the central themes of James K. Galbraith’s new book, “The Predator State.” It’s included in a brief description of technologies which moved from military roots to broader societal application. It marks the moment, however,… full story HERE »
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