Search Content
Single-Payer Health Care Should Not Be a Religion Sep. 28, 2017
The latest Republican push to essentially kill the Affordable Care Act through lawmaking is dead. Se... Read More
13 Reasons Why ... Single-Payer Would Be a Disaster Sep. 21, 2017
If the title of this piece sounds familiar, perhaps it's because you've heard something about the ad... Read More
Sanders Bill Makes Health Insurance Illegal Sep. 20, 2017
Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All Act, introduced last week, outlaws private health insurance. Curiou... Read More
Oops, Republicans Did It Again Aug. 03, 2017
Despite a mountain of historical evidence that the Republican Party doesn't seriously stand for smal... Read More
Work on Health Care Must Go On Aug. 02, 2017
NBC's Chuck Todd started his "Meet the Press" interview with Secretary of Health and Human Services ... Read More
Explaining Medicare Card Codes Jul. 26, 2017
Q: My wife and I are both on Social Security and Medicare. Her Medicare card has my Social Security ... Read More
More Widows ... More Questions Jul. 19, 2017
Perhaps I've opened the floodgates? I've written a several columns over the past month or two discus... Read More
The Battle of Budget Ideas Rages On Jun. 01, 2017
Love it or hate it, the recently proposed 2018 federal budget is dead on arrival. Some say that's be... Read More
Trump's Budget: A Slow Boat to Ruin May. 25, 2017
Donald Trump's first budget proposal is a brazen mix of ideology and dishonesty, seasoned with irres... Read More
Trump's Budget to Preserve the Swamp? May. 25, 2017
President Donald Trump's first budget proposal is finally out, and it boldly promises to deliver a "... Read More
The Road to Single-Payer Could Go Through Medicare Part C May. 18, 2017
Rep. Todd Akin was wrong, wrong, wrong when he said that "America is threatened with a stage 3 cance... Read More
A Ryancare Fix for Medicaid May. 10, 2017
With the passage of a new health care bill in the House, the corridors of Congress are teeming with ... Read More
Kindest Cuts Mar. 22, 2017
"Devastating!" shouts Chuck Schumer. Even Republicans are unhappy. Big spending "conservative" congr... Read More
Trump Should Expand Audits of Programs That Waste Taxpayers' Funds Mar. 02, 2017
Let me dream for a second that the Trump administration is serious about rolling back the expansion ... Read More
The Greatest Debt Producer That God Ever Created? Jan. 26, 2017
Libertarians and conservatives are skeptical of the government's ability to do anything well. But th... Read More
Deadly 'End-of-Life' Myths Jan. 04, 2017
As the new Congress convenes, budget cutters are eyeing Medicare, citing predictions that the progra... Read More
Upgrade That Wobbly, Hard-to-Read Oven Thermometer and More Jan. 02, 2017
I'd had the same oven thermometer for at least a hundred years. The thing had been splattered on and... Read More
Mailbag Miscellany Dec. 07, 2016
I'm drawing a blank. And I'm blaming it on my bad cold. My head is all stuffed up and I can't think ... Read More
Social Security COLAs and Medicare Premiums Nov. 02, 2016
If I am reading national polls correctly, the majority of Americans claim they want smaller governme... Read More
No, Bill Clinton Did Not Call Obamacare 'Crazy' Oct. 27, 2016
Spurred by screaming headlines about "skyrocketing" premiums on some government insurance exchanges,... Read More
