By Ryan Liedtky, Originally published in the South Bend Tribune.
When it comes to health care, or any of a number of other issues regarding government, we tend to pervert ourselves with simple notions on all sides.
On one side we have the common minimalist approach, which makes [...]
Jim Treacher put Evan Bayh’s Blackberry email up on Twitter.
Here:
It doesn’t matter which state you live in. If you live in America, his vote will affect you. Tell him to vote no: eb@bayh.senate.gov
Send the Senator an email telling him what you think of his health care vote last [...]
But I think it's terrific that liberals are finally willing to start looking at outcomes to judge a system. I say we start right away with the public' [...]
(17) America's low ranking on international comparisons of infant mortality proves other countries' socialist health care systems are better than ours.
America has had a comparatively high infant mortality rate since we've been measuring these things, [...]
The current health care debate has generated a lot of discussion on just what constitutes a "right". I've always maintained that our rights cannot conflict with somebody else's rights. That is, if something you consider to be your right requires the initiation of force against another individual, it isn't really [...]
Here's To Your Health...
This bill is hot off the presses and word is that most senators haven’t seen the bill yet and that the motion to proceed (though not yet scheduled) is coming without them having seen the bill for much time. So now is the time to get on the phone to [...]
This is just going to be a drive-by post, since I haven’t thought it through and probably don’t have the expertise to think it through if I tried. But, it seems to me that health care financing has both a risk management component and an entitlement component. Maybe we need [...]
Just in case you were wondering how Government Health Care Reform would go, here's a cautionary example from Indiana. The East Porter County School Board knows whats better for your kids than you, and the parent's wishes for their children will be completely ignored:
The exchange:By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - I’ve been writing about politics and public policy since 1985 and the current health care reform sequence is the most complicated issue of my career. So what I’m attempting to do with this column is to work through the many elements that have brought us [...]
Black leaders constantly remind Americans of our racism. Should not these same leaders protest the expansion of government control contained in the health-care [...]
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - When the “aye” lights lit up next to the names of Baron Hill, Brad Ellsworth and Joe Donnelly in the U.S. House late Saturday night, the die was cast for what will likely be the critical issue of the 2010 election cycle: health care.
The Republican [...]
By DAVID M. McINTOSH
WASHINGTON - Last week was a watershed moment for the Obama administration and Congress – Republicans won the off-year elections, unemployment topped 10 percent and despite the tea parties, the House narrowly passed the President’s health care bill.
Historically off-year elections serve as a [...]
By BRIAN A. HOWEY
INDIANAPOLIS - I’ve been writing about politics and public policy since 1985 and the current health care reform sequence is the most complicated issue of my career. So what I’m attempting to do with this column is to work through the many elements [...]
