I’m a cradle vegetarian. Didn’t have even a bite of meat — red or white, fish or fowl — until I was maybe eleven years old, and then I lost my dietary virginity to a hot dog. Go ahead and…
Never underestimate the power of a determined family, the press, the internet, and an outraged public. Guardian Life has changed its policy and apologized to the Pearl family. Ian Pearl will continue to receive the home care he needs. Read…
I was wrong. In my recent post, “Evil Insurance Company or Evil Health-Care System?” I argued that the villain in an obvious case of injustice — a denial of service to spinal muscular atrophy sufferer Ian Pearl — is not…
For more than sixty years American presidents have tried to reform our health-care system, to no avail. In the same time period, all other developed nations have set up systems that insure all their citizens, that spend less per capita…
In his September 9 New York Times article, “Big Food vs. Big Insurance,” Michael Pollan makes some interesting observations about why American health care is so expensive, and how reformed insurance companies may help to lower health-care costs. (If you haven’t yet read…
Last week a friend who knows my dogs sent me a link to Wendy Francisco’s wildly popular new song, “God and Dog” (more than half a million views at time of writing). G-o-d and d-o-G–two words, one kind of love.…
These days wisdom seems in short supply in the health-care debate. To wit: the Aug. 18 Wall Street Journalarticle by Jim Towey, where he criticizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) booklet, “Your Life, Your Choices,” which he dubbed “The Death…
A lot of us out here—in red states and blue—would like to get your attention about health-care reform. Some of us are terrified of government inefficiency, and some of us are terrified of big business…
Various Web sites and e-mails are reporting that cancer survival rates are much higher in the U.S. than in various European countries. Some quote Mark Tapscott in the Washington Examiner, who quotes Jim Hoft in the American Issue Project, who quotes Michael…
I recently sent an e-mail about health care to my congressman, Peter Roskam (R-IL, 6th District), through his Web site. If you have ever gone uninsured, struggled to pay insurance premiums, been given unnecessary and expensive tests, lost your insurance…
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Last week a friend who knows my dogs sent me a link to Wendy Francisco’s wildly popular new song, 
