Working Life

Here is something almost no one is talking about but I take it up in this podcast: the repeal of Obamacare, along with its immoral tossing millions of people off health coverage, will cost the country 3 million jobs and $1.5 trillion in economic activity. I break this down for all of us in simple […]

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The House vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act is done. I have a piece posted on CNN.com moments after the vote that argues that it is time for us to rise up, to organize and to demand single-payer, “Medicare for All” health care. Here is the piece The first two paragraphs: Democrats are denouncing […]

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24 million. Big number. The number of people who will be added to the ranks of those who have no health care coverage. More people will be sicker. More people will go bankrupt. More people will die. I go deep into the “Make America Sick Again” bill, also known as the repeal of Obamacare, and […]

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Here’s what the political class offers the people as health care options: the Republican “who cares if you die as long as the free market lives” versus saving the Affordable Care Act which delivers huge new profits to the corrupt insurance industry. Seriously? So, it’s a good time for us to go in-depth on the […]

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Look, the Supreme Court ruling is a good thing, not the least of which is that it makes the heads of three wingers on the Court and across the land explode. But, it’s important to pause for a moment and realize that the Affordable Care Act is woefully inadequate, and is the dream for insurance companies and drug companies who want to leech on people.

Bernie Sanders understands that.

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Nobody, in my opinion, knows the Supreme Court better, and writes about its decisions and law in a more user-friendly way, than Linda Greenhouse, former NYTimes Supreme Court reporter who has a regular column on the Times website; I read every one of her columns, even if it’s not a topic I particularly work on or follow.

Today, she blisters the Court in a broadside that essentially says: by agreeing to take up a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the conservative majority has shown that it is simply a group of “politicians in robes”.

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I don’t mind disagreeing with opponents on the merits of one proposal versus another. But, I have very little tolerance for just lying about the facts or, at best, muddling the truth about the reality. And, so, it is with healthcare: the continuing myth, promoted by both the political and media jabbering low-minds, that the president and his former Secretary of State both made the same mistake on health care–they opted for something too “complex” “inflexible”, “secretive” or “socialistic”, or a combination of all of the aforementioned descriptions.

It’s utter nonsense. They did make the same mistake–but it had nothing to do with complexity. It was entirely their immoral unwillingness to confront two powerful industries that have relentlessly killed hundreds of thousands of people, either by bankrupting those people or literally denying them care.

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   A good friend of mine often contends that we would have been a lot better off if the Confederacy had won the Civil War, grouping that whole swath of states south of the Mason-Dixon line into their own little country. Perhaps. But, it also seems like actual elected leaders of the country pine for […]

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