My Inner Author

Okay, if your insomnia wasn’t cured from part 1 on Health Care, I dared to keep going with part 2.   Again, these are just my voter/citizen thoughts on the issue so far, and obviously I am not an expert in the insurance or health care field.   Like many, I am trying to decide where to place my support in solving this crisis.   My view is dynamic, changing and hopefully growing in knowledge, albeit as a informed citizen, not active politician writing the new Health Care law. In part 1 I asked “what is health care” in your terms.   We can’t agree on a solution without a context that we are talking about the same things.   If we can agree on the idea of basic care as a moral right, rising to the point of legislating it, but I would still contend it doesn’t need to go in to the Constitution.   Basic care for all, I can agree.   We need to agree on the scope of basic care, but I think we can find those boundaries much easier than the other more com...

Of late, I have remained fairly dormant when it comes to posts which pertain to politics.   I know myself and many friends are still suffering from TRump whine/gloat fatigue and I certainly try to NOT contribute to its continued presence in my friends FB feeds.   But as the GOP failed in their first attempt to repeal Obamacare, delaying a vote on a terrible piece of legislation, I wanted to demonstrate how complex this debate will (well maybe 'needs to') be as we move forward. We do have a health care coverage crisis in our country.   I think that is an area where we can mostly all agree.  I don't believe Obamacare is the answer, I wholeheartedly believe socialized medicine is even worse of an idea, and I will state here that I also don't agree with the recently proposed GOP legislation.   It is so easy to simply say "I support Obamacare", or "I support repealing Obamacare."  The problem is those statements honestly have no substance.  If ...