Here’s another post from Pat’s CaringBridge journal:
One of the things I truly enjoy in my professional life is helping people understand the power of the Internet. Today, I tapped into some of that power myself.
From the comfort of my home, I attended a presentation titled CML: What Every Newly Diagnosed Patient Needs to Know with [...]
After spending my weekend tamping down fires around HR 3200 which were purely the result of a lack of understanding about how legislation is constructed, I thought it might be helpful to put together some pointers on how to read it, along with some key terms.
Format
The bill is written in outline form. Because many provisions [...]
Look at this amazing Google timeline of the national debate about health care reform over the past 100 years. At a glance, it’s clear that the anti-reformers have won the debate by throwing lots of money and hysterical arguments at the issue, leaving us where we are today.
There’s only one lesson to learn from this [...]
Just go to WeWantThePublicOption.com and sign the petition. Then pass the word. Let’s show the lobbyists and the lobbied that when 76% of the country wants something, they should get it. Now, not ten years from now.
Here’s the problem: We’ve got a bunch of scaredy-cat Democrats who are equivocating on true reform in [...]