Mis-Understanding the Uninsured
September 30th, 2009
In the drive to ensure that all Americans have access to affordable and comprehensive health care, reform advocates have defined the uninsured population as 47 million, or approximately 15% of the population. More recently, President Obama has been referring to “over 30 million”. The lower number, it turns out, stems directly from Obama’s need to [...]
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Drain-O Time: Unclogging Health Reform
September 28th, 2009
Last year at this time all we heard about was the credit crisis and the fact that the credit markets were “all clogged up”. 12 months later we’ve got the same problem, although this time its health reform that is paralyzed. The culprit right now of course is the government run option. If the President wants reform [...]
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Goodbye to an Incredible and Courageous Woman
September 5th, 2009
This week we said good-bye to an amazing woman. Rhonda Parent was a wife-mother-daughter-sister-coworker-friend and party girl extraordinaire. And she was so, so much more to all of us who knew and loved her. I’d like to tell you a little bit about why she was so special to me, and the impact that she had on so many of us. [...]
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More (Scary Stuff) on The Unintended Consequences
September 4th, 2009
Bad news for all of us do-gooders out there…So far, polling on the “Golden Rule” vs. “Unintended Consequences” is running 2/3rds against the Golden Rule. It’s not surprising, really. The $2.5 trillion healthcare economy affects all of us. In addition to our consumption of all things healthy and thereuputic, millions of Americans support their family directly [...]
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