Shooting Straight as Pressure Increases

Washington It’s not spring here, but finally there is a briskness in peoples’ step.  Tomorrow there is a major rally for heath care reform called by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), and on Sunday, March 21st, the forces in favor of comprehensive immigration reform are rallying, praying, and marching on the Mall, hopefully with [...]

Finally Left Leverage on Healthcare

Niagara Falls, Ontario           Maybe progressives and liberals are finally willing to exercise some leverage rather than watching painfully as conservatives and moderates strip every bill that arises down to the bone with health care reform being the latest front page casualty?  There are signs of a stirring.

            SEIU and Andy Stern after having seemed for [...]

Healthcare Hijinks: Catholics, Rockefeller & Repubs

            Buffalo             Driving through neighborhoods on first the east side and then the west side of Buffalo was a reminder of what happens in America when your issues fall to the bottom of the pile.  The impact of deindustrialization was an ever present scar even when we found the occasional still operating Wonder Bread or [...]

36000 USA Flu Deaths Every Year

Boston             After discussing Citizen Wealth in Harvard Square at the Co-op, I found myself fascinated by a similar maximum eligible participation type of problem while talking to a friend who is a public health nurse with the City of Boston.  I asked her a casual question about how work was going and she replied, exasperatingly, [...]

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