Money Won’t Buy You Health Insurance
By DONNA DUBINSKY
Redwood City, Calif.
THIS isn’t the story of a poor family with a mother who has a dreadful disease that bankrupts them, or with a child who has to go without vital medicines. Unlike many others, my family can afford medical care, with or without insurance.
Instead, this is a story about how broken the market for health insurance is, even for those who are healthy and who are willing and able to pay for it.
Analysts Say Supreme Court Ruling On Health Care Is Anybody’s Guess
WASHINGTON — If you are handicapping whether the Supreme Court is going to find the nation’s health care law constitutional, you have a few options.
You can go old school, citing the great arc of decisions that began in 1819 in which the court has built upon one precedent after another to say the Constitution gives Congress great powers to conduct the nation’s business.
What Conservatives Really Want
Dedicated to the peaceful protestors in Wisconsin, February 19, 2011.
The central issue in our political life is not being discussed. At stake is the moral basis of American democracy.
The individual issues are all too real: assaults on unions, public employees, women's rights, immigrants, the environment, health care, voting rights, food safety, pensions, prenatal care, science, public broadcasting and on and on.
Budget deficits are a ruse, as we've seen in Wisconsin, where the Governor turned a surplus into a deficit by providing corporate tax breaks, and then used the deficit as a ploy to break the unions, not just in Wisconsin, but seeking to be the first domino in a nationwide conservative movement.
The Budget Scalpel and Medical Research
By ALBERT R. HUNT | BLOOMBERG NEWS
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s call for “investments” in education, infrastructure and science and health research is dismissed by most congressional Republicans as a fig leaf for more big-government spending.
That underlies the House of Representatives’ decision Saturday to slash $61 billion from an array of discretionary spending programs in the current fiscal year budget.
This may make proponents feel good, yet, as almost all budget experts acknowledge, these measures have little to do with addressing America’s fiscal challenges. That would require focusing on entitlements, taxes and defense spending.
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