Health Care and Cambridge

July 23rd, 2009

The health care debate was raging on at full steam and if there is something everyone can agree on it is that the debate is far from settled. It is without question that Barak Obama has drawn his line in the sand on this issue, and it seems that he will push forward on it until it is either won or lost outright. The story behind the story however, is that two seemingly unrelated stories have conspired to derail the debate. I contend that it is the President himself who allowed that to happen, if only by an unfortunate and uncharacteristic off-the-cuff answer.

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Health Care Reform

July 20th, 2009

I haven’t had a chance to write a full opinion piece on this subject, but I plan to shortly.  Ronald Regan had it right when he asked people to think of something that Government had done better than private industry, and stated that Government isn’t the solution, it is the problem.  There certainly is a place for government programs, but it isn’t health care.  Some interesting news reports to chew on:

CNN (a wheelchair that costs 4x more to rent than to buy)
Sky News  (22 year old man dies after being refused a liver transplant)