November 18th will mark the 11 year anniversary of the day I ended my grandmother's life. I did it with an ink pen. To sign documents to give to hospital permission to remove her from life support, to give permission to harvest her organs. My...
health care
It should be abundantly clear to any regular readers that I am not one to criticize the S-CHIP reauthorization effort. That remains unchanged. But what I do think is worthy.
Just so the consequences of Bush's veto of S-CHIP are 100% clear: it's not just that kids who need health insurance but aren't currently covered are screwed. Kids who are.
It seems to me that Atrios is completely right about this. I mean, what happens if this ridiculous smear campaign about the kid makes breaks mainstream? The veto is a political loser pretty much regardless, I think, but if the explanatory strategy seems quite likely...
It's a minor example among the countless ones of the Bush administration's fiscal incontinence, but the money the Bush administration is using to fund useless abstinence-only programs and useless abstinence-only.
By now we all know about Bush's politically stupid and unconscionable veto of Congress's bill expanding S-CHIP, the health care program that would cover kids whose families are not poor.
...that the quality and quantity of healthcare is vastly different depending on where you live, what your racial and ethnic background is, and how much money you have. And the differences are especially apparent when it comes to maternal health and infant mortality.A new study...
Well you can say one thing about President Bush: he's a politicker til the end. Today, as he promised, he vetoed S-CHIP, the State Child Health Insurance Program. S-CHIP is.
Ezra assesses the meaning of the fact that the United States ranks #1 in cancer survival rates, which seems likely to be adduced frequently by apologists for the indefensible American.
Repeating a frequent argument, a commenter to this thread says:The structure of a universal care system should somehow promote and reward healthy living. How does one deter the freeloaders who take poor care of themselves and then overuse the system for years on end (as...
In addition to what Roy says, I'd like to highlight this odd part of Megan McArdle's counter to Ezra's attack on Giuliani's health plan:Moreover, as a class, the old and.
[Image Removed]Under the headline "White House Acts to Limit Health Plan for Children," I just read this gem:The Bush administration, continuing its fight to stop states from expanding the popular.