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Doctor Me

September 24, 2019 – 8:15 pm

Hypochondria struck me at an early age after reading a Maryknoll missionary magazine showing a photo of a young boy wearing a metal contraption to walk. I feared that an unnamed ailment would take away by legs and I’d be a tin boy. Every small cut was examined for gangrene and each fever was a […]

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Trump’s Health Care Poor

October 10, 2016 – 6:37 pm

Obamacare is not perfect. Monolithic insurance companies control the market. Their executives aberrantly raise the costs of medicine and hospital care. Donald Trump excoriated the health system by stating with vehemence, “Obamacare is a total disaster and I promised to replace the ACA with the finest health-care plan there is.” Trump failed to elaborate on […]

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Death Camps For The Old

February 10, 2015 – 2:18 am

During the fight to pass President Obama’s Affordable Healthcare Bill, the GOP accused the Democrats of having written a clause designed to create death camps for the elderly. This falsitude was promoted by Fox News to the believers in the Right and this week Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin proposed to cut funding for the […]

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Few Have Chosen

November 16, 2013 – 11:05 pm

Jen Rowley is young. She loves posing for photos. I met her at the 169 Bar on east Broadway. She left that dive for San Francisco. The City by the Bay must seem more free, but I bet she doesn’t have health care and neither do most Americans even though the vast majority are covered […]

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Big Boys Don’t Cry

October 18, 2013 – 8:40 pm

The GOP revisionists collapsed in the face of the federal budget default. Ted Cruz vowed to fight Obamacare to the last breath of his body much as Charlton Heston had sworn to uphold the right to carry a firearm into the grave. John Boehner survived the crisis to continue as the party whip, even though […]

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