This is a screed I originally posted on an Indian friend’s Facebook wall: Don’t worry about the US [on the pollution front]. We’re down from using 40% of the world’s resources (and generating 40% of the pollution) to under 30% — and dropping. Our richie-riches are determined to keep us “competitive” in the world labor [...]

I have a simple approach to fixing our health care system that will piss off both Republicans and Democrats, not to mention insurance, hospital, pharma, and other health care executives whose huge incomes are dependent on major profits from the current system. Trial lawyers won’t like it, either. Therefore, treat this as a fantasy — [...]

That’s right, seniors. Speak up. Tell your representatives how much you resent socialized medicine and want it shut down. Medicare is nothing but socialized medicine combined with age discrimination. There is no constitutional authority for it, and it corrupts the American system of competitive medical care and the sacred one-on-one relationship between a patient and [...]

A Slate article titled Puff Daddies, subtitled More Americans over age 50 are smoking marijuana than ever before. Are my parents among them? tells you something you should have known intuitively: that an awful lot of Americans who liked to smoke a joint or two when they were young, but put that sort of [...]

Let’s postulate a Democratic Party success; that in honor of the late Senator Kennedy or for some other reason Congress passes a government-backed, single-payer health care plan. Yay! Even though we will pay higher taxes to support it, we’ll make up for that by relieving individuals and businesses of their current health insurance worries (and [...]

“This article provides a perspective on the Canadian healthcare system and what it has meant to a small business consultant and entrepreneur and his family.”

Video brought to you by internetvideopromotion.com - Wednesday, August 19, 2009 Organized by Bonnie Gray Productions - dance performances, free food and beverages, see local merchants and their wares. This is not to first time Bonnie has put on something like this, and hopefully it won’t be the last time. Please see bonniegray.com/ for more [...]

Some Republicans have threatened to make health reform Obama’s “Waterloo,” as Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina has put it. The President has fired back at what he considers GOP obstructionism. Meanwhile, big insurance companies have quietly focused on what they see as their central challenge: shaping the views of moderate Democrats.
Please read the August [...]

Officially, as of July, 2009, 9.4% of the U.S. working population — about 15 million people — didn’t have jobs. One in three of those unemployed people — about 5 million of them — had been out of work for 27 weeks or more, which is a long time to go without a paycheck. Another [...]

This is something I’ve said before: the big problem with American health care is not just that we want to be treated when we’re sick and get some help to stay well, but that we all expect to have a top-of-his-class Hopkins doctor attend to our every tiny medical complaint. And yes, we want to [...]