January 2010
2 posts
Tastespotting →
Any time I want to see how a recipe can be done, I go to Tastespotting—and boom! It’s all food porn right there, in their depictions of how food can and should be if followed to the letter in a recipe.
“What’s madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance?”
– Theodore Roethke
March 2009
2 posts
Thinking About The Public Option In Health Care...
The public option in the debate on health care reform is the most crucial part of health care reform as a viable alternative to the private insurance companies. I can't support health care reform without the inclusion of the public option. If the public option were left out of health care reform, then I'd work as hard as I could to oppose that health care reform since it'd just be mandated junk insurance bills for all of us.
It's the line in the sand for me. I can't tolerate being mandated to have health care coverage without the public option to turn to. We must also press to have health care reform legislation introduced from the House side and to be included in the budget reconciliation as it'd be a much better product than what Senator Baucus and Grassley are planning to cook up in the Senate side. It's the line in the sand for me. Is the public option the line in the sand for you as well?
The Next Bailout Might Be For Health Insurance...
Richard Kirsch, who leads the Health Care for America NOW group which supports the public option in a public-private health care reform plan, speaks out about the coming fight against the health insurance companies, like the ones backed by the front group AHIP:
But the insurance industry only backs reform that protects — better still, boosts — its bottom line. That’s always...