Health Care is America’s Cash Cow

| Sep 20, 2010 | Environment / HealthOur health system’s Run amok; Folks just out, To make a buck. America’s hallowed “market democracy” has favored us with a cornucopia of shimmering goods and services. At least, if you can afford them. Unfortunately, that system doesn’t...

Getting Sick Can Be Darned Risky

| Apr 19, 2010 | Environment / Health“Doctor Error”Makes me blink,Much more commonThan you think. We all know who the real bad guys are in the health biz. They’re the insurance companies, the drug companies, and the lawmakers who serve them. Those are the easy ones. After them...

Sick and Fired

| | Environment / HealthCongress has debated health-care reform for generations. Our much-debated and historic legislation is finally ready to go to work, hopefully delivering expanded coverage, making health care more affordable, and holding insurance companies accountable. But we still...

Health-Care Reform: A Good Start

| Jan 25, 2010 | Environment / HealthWhen you strip off the rhetoric and the partisan politics and remove the fear factor, the health-care legislation working its way to President Barack Obama’s desk is, for most Americans, the healthiest medicine ever offered. Sure, there are missing pieces and probably...