Analysts Announce: Health Care Reform Requires Health Care Reform

Over at my "Public Option Health Care Now Blog", I have just published a commentary on a Washington Post article that tells us all what we already knew:  Insuring 47 million additional people under America's current wasteful and unnecessarily expensive health care regime...

Rich Must Pay More Taxes if All are to Have Access to Health Care

Cross-posed at Public Option Health Care Now.It's absurd to argue whether the US should have a public option for health insurance or not. The real question is whether the for-profit insurance companies should have a captive audience or not.The US already has public options...

Brazilian Government Has Free Pharmacies for All

The sign above the window says "Pharmacy for Basic Health" Cross-posted at Public Option Health Care Now.Yesterday afternoon in Brazil, I went to a Brazilian Government public pharmacy (see above) to fill receive the medicine prescribed for me last week by the doctor at the...

Would You Support "Public Option" if it Would Cause Hurricanes?

Voters Pressing Democrats to Pass a "Public Option" Cross-posted at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.The Washington Post reports that liberal voters and organized groups of voters and spending money advertising in the states of Democrats who have expressed public...