Alice in Obama Medical Care Land
Most political and media discussions of medical care have an air of unreality reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. There is an abundance of catch-phrases but remarkably few coherent arguments. Let’s start at square one. Why is there alarm about American medical...The Obama Health Care Plan: Hazardous to Your Health
On June 25 a town hall meeting was held in Rio Rancho, New Mexico to discuss Obama’s health care plan. The meeting opened with a televised study of the Canadian and UK’s health care plans. Afterwards, a factual report of the Obama plan was presented....Three Good Things
Here’s a daily practice I learned from Martin Seligman, author of Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness. Once each day, write down three good things that happened in the last 24 hours. You can write them before going to bed or first thing in the morning. You...College Education: To Much of a “Good Thing”?
Even if the “stimulus” package doesn’t seem to be doing much to stimulate the economy, it is certainly stimulating many potential recipients of government money to start lining up at the trough. All you need is something that sounds like a...Doctors: Stand Up to the Political Bullies
Physicians and other medical professionals have the power to bring down socialized medicine–socialized medicine as we know it, and as its expansion is being proposed. They can do so by simply saying, “Enough.” Government does not own my skills....Tea Parties amd Going John Galt: America’s New Direction?
On April 15, 2009 Tea Parties protesting the government’s fiscal irresponsibility took place throughout the nation. A second Tea Party is being planned for July 4.Rejecting socialism, Tea Party participants are acting fundamentally on the principle of individual...Tell Me Everything You Know
I have invented a new educational game. I call it “Tell Me Everything You Know.” Here is how the game works in my grammar class: I write a sentence on the board, set a time limit, and then have the students write down every grammatical fact they can name...The Real Right to Medical Care Versus Socialized Medicine
The health and the freedom of the American people now and in the future demand a new politics of progress: progress away from government interference and in the direction of individualism and capitalism. Let such progress begin here and now, with a fight for the right to the freedom of medical care.
