Kaizen is a Japanese term that means small and continuous improvement. While usually applied to business, I've adopted this term when people question changes or forward moving direction I take in my own life. If you're improving, even in baby steps, you're still better off than you were before.
This' [...]
Nate Silver, over at FiveThirtyEight.com has 20 questions for people who are coming out against the health care reform bill currently pending before the Senate.
Over the medium term, how many other
opportunities will exist to provide in excess of $100 billion per year [...]
Congress takes up health care reform. All agree the blame for the nation’s health care crisis falls mostly upon unscrupulous insurance companies who earn all their money by denying coverage and benefits to millions of Americans.
And right now, the Joe Lieberman “compromise” in the Senate calls for [...]
So what's left? No public option, no Medicare buy-in, thanks to President Lieberman. The 90% medical loss ratio? That's dead, too. The Dorgan amendment on drug importation comes up for a vote today. Look for that to disappear as well. The ban on denying coverage based on [...]
This is no time for Holiday Cheer
There’s a a critical call to action in Austin Saturday involving the health care reform proposals pending in Congress. One Voice for Choice has organized a phone banking event in Austin Saturday to call pro-choice voters in Democratic Congressional Districts. Organized by the great folks at [...]
Those of you that recall the 1992 election well remember the famous line from James Carville. In many ways, that line is true and always will be true. For the Democrats in 2010, that line holds more importance than they could ever guess. People focus on health care reform [...]
Senator Orrin Hatch on the floor of the Senate, speaking about the health care reform bill. From Think Progress:
"This will become one more example of the arrogance of power being exerted since the Democrats secured a 60-vote majority in the United States Senate and took over the House" [...]
I think I understand the rationale for cuts to Medicare spending as part of the overall health care reform package, but I have to admit I don’t understand the rationale behind this:
Home care shows, in microcosm, a conundrum at the heart of the health care debate. Lawmakers have decided [...]
In what is becoming a near-daily ritual, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, hammered away this morning at Democratic plans for health care reform on the Senate floor, calling proposed cuts to Medicare "astounding."
Hutchison and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, led a Republican discussion to highlight concerns about $384 billion in proposed [...]
Paul Krugman, on what I believe is the single most powerful argument for health care reform:
… the proposed health care reform links the expansion of coverage to serious cost-control measures for Medicare. Think of it as a grand bargain: coverage for (almost) everyone, tied to an effort to ensure [...]
