As the legislation moves through the Senate a consensus for watered-down health care reform starts to emerge: a plan that regulates the corporations some more, sparing them the inconvenience of the desperately needed Public Option. This turn of events didn’t come from the GOP, but from DEMOCRATS. Conservative Democrats, called Blue Dogs. But “conservative” is … Read more
I’m really an insurance company . . . but I play a doctor on TV. All week, as the intensity of the health Care debate has been ratcheted up. Obama and reformers have had to defend against attacks on reform. These have gotten sharper and more destructive as poll numbers for reform sink, commensurate with … Read more
Walter Cronkite’s 92 years spanned most of the important events of the 20th Century. In fact that was the name of a program he hosted (as though the century was “brought to you” by Cronkite). And it sort of was. From World War II to Reagan he was on the scene to so great an … Read more
The Moment of Truth is here. For years a National Health Plan has been a dream. Now it is coming. The level of pain is too high and all the forces of the Medical Industrial Complex cannot overcome the collective will. Or so it seems. Meanwhile, back on K Street, the armies of the Empire … Read more
