SCHIP, or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, is a state-and-federal program that successfully provides medical insurance to children whose families cannot afford insurance, and who do not qualify for other programs, such as Medicaid. But the program is in trouble. The AMA is worried that the Senate may move to strip the Medicare physician [...]
Baseball News
I have to interrupt this blog to report that my beloved Chicago Cubs are 1/2 a game out of first place, and it’s August. Maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s finally our year!
Shuffling the Deck Chairs on the Ship of Fools
Sumo told me about this article at Alternet called Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t Listening. Johann Hari, the reporter, set simple ground rules for himself when he booked himself as a guest on the National Review’s annual cruise for Conservatives. He had one rule for himself:
If [...]
Health Care for Nobody
A US Court of Appeals, in its infinite wisdom arrogant stupidity,has ruled that terminally ill people do not have the right to get unapproved, potentially lifesaving treatments even when doctors determine that this path might be their best hope for survival. Since the drugs aren’t approved by the FDA yet, and are still experimental, [...]
Define “Politic”
pol·i·tic(pol-i-tik)
adj.
1. Using or marked by prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; artful.
2. Using, displaying, or proceeding from policy; judicious: a politic decision.
3. Crafty; cunning.
I grew up in Chicago. I grew up a Democrat with Independent, Liberal overtones in Chicago. I was an activist, and a campaign worker for Democratic Congressman Abner J. Mikva who taught me a [...]
R E S P E C T – find out what it means to me
Bill Wilson and Ebby Thatcher
Alcoholics Anonymous has been called “the most significant phenomenon in the history of ideas in the twentieth century.” (from the introduction, The Spirituality of Imperfection by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham)
On a chill, rainy afternoon in November 1934, two men sat catercorner at the kitchen table of a brownstone house in [...]
