During my travels last week, I caught little snippets in the news about the health care marathon debate. Two arguments stuck in my mind, one from the Republicans and one from a woman who was protesting in the street.

Arguments from Republicans: we can’t afford an all inclusive reform; it would break the bank. That made me wonder where these guys ( Read more... )

This started out as a reply to another journal entry.  I decided to repost it here.

In a reply to another LJ entry about Health Care, one respondent mentioned that she had a problem with the idea that some people claim that there is a "right" to get health care.  That go me to thinking.

I think that getting into the semantics about "rights" misses ( Read more... )

Nicholas Kristof of the NY Times has written an interesting article about the scare tactics being used in the United States in an advertising campaign hoping to get people to oppose health care reform. (link)

The statistics that he references are interesting (link - Excel File).

In his article, Kristof compares the cost of providing health insurance ( Read more... )