(27 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 24, 2016
An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from One Progressive Woman I am a progressive. I work with and serve thousands of progressive women. And you, Sec. Clinton, are no progressive woman.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 3, 2015
Brutality is Our Society's Trademark -- From the Justice System to Healthcare I believe economic inequality is what drives despair that crosses all racial and cultural divides and also keeps people shuttered in their homes until the most appalling events turn quiet desperation to active rage. Yet in so many areas of our society we've come to accept that economic disparity is an acceptable method of segregation.

(69 comments) SHARE        Saturday, July 26, 2014
With New Obamacare Rulings, One Thing Is Certain: We Need Medicare for All for Life It makes me crazy to see the latest news about a Federal Court striking down the tax credits (subsidies) offered on the Federal Affordable Care Act health exchanges. The Republicans are celebrating; the Democrats are scrambling. And the people who hate the ACA/Obamacare as well as those who are pushing to achieve a longer term solution through single-payer reform will claim victory.

(55 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 16, 2014
Sick Inside Our Broken Health System with that Old Familiar Terror in My Gut We can change the system. But we have to be prepared for some ugly fights that will sometimes be waged against people who claim to be our friends. But what we cannot do is stand by and do nothing while people feel so much terror and shame that is not of their own making. Do something. Step up. Stand for changing this system before you have to stand alone.

(14 comments) SHARE        Monday, September 30, 2013
On the Eve of Obamacare: Too Smart to Really Fix Our Health Care System, So We Count the Dead Ever listen to the late William F. Buckley, Jr., speak for long periods of time? The drone of his uber-intellectualism was certainly filled with facts we might all have needed to know, but I often feel a similar pallor wash over my brain when the uber-smart of single-payerdom begin their soliloquies.

(21 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 22, 2013
Weaponized Profits: The US Health Care System Many people who advocate for an improved and expanded Medicare for all for life health system in the US tend to vilify the for-profit, private insurance industry and big Pharma but ignore the atrocities committed by almost every other segment of the system. If we are to fix what ails the US health care system, we will have to get a whole lot more honest about all of the factions that lift profit-making above all else

(8 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 27, 2013
No Holiday for Killing the Uninsured, the Underinsured and the Broke in the U.S.- Until Health Care is a Human Right An improved and expanded Medicare for all for life system would put an immediate end to the rising death toll related to lack of access to needed care, and it would also end bankruptcies driven by medical crisis and debt. We need to do whatever is required to make that change in our system.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 15, 2012
Who Knew There Was So Much Poverty? The Poor, That's Who Being really poor in for-profit-America is worse than any horror movie could ever be.

SHARE        Monday, November 21, 2011
Power in Numbers: Millions Crowd to Occupy Life The OWS movement allows us to claim a place of pain, and when our broken parts are meshed together they make one huge and unbreakable force. We may not yet know where our force will ultimately take us, but we commit ourselves to outcomes that heal and uplift one another.

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 18, 2011
'Let 'Em Eat Peas': An Elitist Mantra for Our Age The elite of this nation have largely forgotten the rest of us. We've already sacrificed. There was no sharing of peas or anything else. Wall Street was bailed out; Main Street was sold out. And the march goes on to call for "shared sacrifice." It's a ruse of the most horrible kind, and it dishonors those who have gone before us.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 1, 2011
Let's Drop Healthcare Access on One Another, Not Bombs officials in Vermont must understand that warfare on one's own citizens, even if it is economic warfare and class warfare and healthcare warfare, is not desirable behavior and will not be rewarded.

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 6, 2011
Super Bowl Commercial for the Dead Patients I'd love to see a Super Bowl commercial Sunday that stated the facts about how many Americans will die on Super Bowl Sunday this year because they didn't have access to the healthcare they needed. 123 will die on Sunday

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 12, 2009
The Pompous or the Populists: Who Will Win the Healthcare Debate? You'd think after eight long and ugly years listening to pompous and wealthy officials slam their versions of social hatred down our gullets, we'd have sent those folks packing for good on January 20, 2009. You'd think.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 9, 2009
Happy Mother's Day from America's Health Insurance Plans and Mr. Baucus Wow. America's Health insurance Plan's (AHIP) czar -- and the woman our Congress and president have anointed as the nation's architect of health reform -- has offered a gift to all of America's moms and women. The health insurance industry will stop charging you more - they'll stop discriminating against you - so long as all of you are legally forced to buy their product.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 20, 2009
Will Congress Pass Ponzi Healthcare? Let's Say 'No' in Des Moines We will get what we allow Congress to pass.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 28, 2009
A Mother Asks President Obama To Be Honest About Healthcare We need honesty going forward. We need full disclosure of our options. We need courage and clarity. And we cannot have that if this President and this Congress participate is a pre-choreographed dance to reward the big health industry interests at the expense of the rest of us.

(30 comments) SHARE        Saturday, February 7, 2009
The Big, Bad Joke of Healthcare Reform Healthcare policy discussions and formal hearings underway in D.C. are not filled with the sounds of crafting policies to guarantee what candidate Barack Obama termed a human right. Instead, they center on "benefit connectors" and "cost containment" or "reinsurance" and "tiered benefits" or "payment incentives and physician bonus opportunities." Few walk the healthcare-is-a-human-right talk.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 18, 2009
The Horror of Healthcare in America The reality is we know having health insurance is not being protected in this nation. It is simply a hedge against being turned away at the door or labeled less worthy of the best care because our financial standing does not hold us in the best stead with our providers. Having health insurance doesn't protect us from financial ruin or even from being denied a life-saving treatment.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 17, 2008
A Suspension of Our National Soul Not only have we bitten off our own heads, we've set aside our souls just on the hope of great wealth. We've let those with big bank balances and big real estate holdings convince us that they also have big brains to fix the big mess and better judgment somehow than the everyday neighbors who must balance much more pressure on much less in resources.

(10 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 11, 2008
The DNC's 'Guaranteed Healthcare' Reality Check How the DNC helped negotiate the "guaranteed healthcare for all" language for its platform