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We Get Sick, They Get Rich
Our current health care system in the United States works just fine — for the corporate executives who run it. Take, for instance, Michael Mussallem, the CEO at Edwards Lifesciences — a California-based company that makes heart valves and assorted other medical...
Bernie Sanders Thinks War Is Overrated, And He’s Right
When Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was a candidate for president, he seemed uninterested in talking about foreign policy. Instead, Sanders cast himself as a progressive populist and focused almost exclusively on domestic issues, particularly speaking out against the...
White Folks Need to Stop Assuming We Know Everything About Race
As white people across the nation criticize Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players who "take a knee" for the national anthem, they ought to know something first. White people in America have no idea what life is like for black people in America. How can I make such a...
Our Health Care System Is a Corporate Care System
Rather than a health care system, our country's leaders have kept us shackled to a "corporate care" system. This allows insurance giants, drug company gougers, hospital chains, and other profiteers to ration our care based on whether a family can pay whatever...
First, Do Harm
In OtherWords: September 27, 2017
The GOP effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act looks to be, once again, stalled for now. That's no doubt a relief to the millions of Americans the Congressional Budget Office estimated would've lost their care if the Graham-Cassidy bill had passed. ("First, do...
In OtherWords: September 20, 2017
Well, in episode 4,000 or so of a long-running saga, the GOP is reviving its effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with something far more draconian. (In fact, I had to check our past issues to make sure we hadn't run this exact newsletter already.)...
Trump’s Tax Plan: A Billion or Three for Guys Like Him
What’s the largest personal stake a U.S. president has ever had in legislation he signed into law? Whatever it was, it'll be dwarfed by what Donald Trump’s signature will be worth — to himself — if Congress passes his proposed tax plan and puts it on his desk. If that...
Can Anti-Racist Businesses Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is?
Donald Trump's failure to condemn white supremacists after the violent neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville several weeks back had an unexpected casualty: the president's business advisory councils. My partner works for a Fortune 500 company whose CEO sat on one those...
