Extending Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest While Repealing Healthcare Law – A Morally Untenable Agenda
Are we really willing, as a country, to assign a higher value to tax cuts for the wealthiest during economically difficult times than preventing the unnecessary loss of tens of thousands of American lives each year?
An Intent to Drive Medicare Into Insolvency?
I issued the following letter to the NY Times earlier this year in response to a column written by Dr. Paul Krugman (a US Nobel Laureate in Economics out of [...]
The Best Healthcare System? Depends Who You Are
In a letter to CNBC’s Squawk Box, I used my recent experience with my wife in battling cancer to point out that yes, we do have a great healthcare system, as long one has the means to afford it.
Obamacare? A Derogatory and Undeserved Name
Past Governor George Pataki (R-NY) was a guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box and is an opponent of the healthcare reform legislation. The segment also included former Governor Howard Dean (D-VT) [...]
The White Coat Count
My wife’s stay at Duke Hospital during her first bout with leukemia in 2005 made for a long and challenging summer. I stayed in her room using a recliner chair [...]
Have Our Lawmakers Crossed Ethical, Even Legal, Bounds
When I worked at the executive level in the health industry we had to adhere to strict rules regarding behavior with government agencies. Corporate legal instructed us to be completely [...]
Healthcare Reform: Lobbyists Shape US Debate
On the heels of the article I published regarding objectionable behavior of elected officials during the healthcare debate (1), Robert Pear published an article in the NY Times (2) revealing [...]
The US Senate: It’s Not Just Healthcare That Needs Reform
Introductory Remarks Following last Saturday’s historic vote on healthcare legislation in the US House of Representatives, the headline in Monday morning’s paper read “Health Bill Hits Senate Wall”. Senator [...]
Cost Conundrums – Published Letter
I have received encouragement from some who have read this blog to submit my health insurance reform position to the press for publication. A letter I submitted made the Sunday [...]
Healthcare Reform Death Panels? The Tables Turned
The ‘death panel’ tactic by opponents of healthcare reform was offensive and a scare tactic. It was a manipulation of proposed legislation and an absurdity to believe that legislators and [...]
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North Carolina’s “Abomination”
Protect marriage? It is high time that we protect one of our most cherished founding liberties, our First Amendment’s Establishment Clause.
LGBT Discrimination and Amendment One: A Compilation
“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free and civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes”. Thomas Jefferson. A compilation of articles from this site about NC Amendment One and discrimination is provided.
In Defense of Same-Sex Marriage
“A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.” US Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun
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Job Creation and Our Diminished Economic Engine: The Middle Class
Over the past 30 years the vast majority of income gains have gone to the wealthiest in our country. In an economy that is 70% personal consumption, we will continue to experience slow recovery and anemic job growth until we more broadly share prosperity and rebuild the purchasing power of our economic engine, the middle class