In the first year of President Obama’s term, he has tried to leverage an overwhelming majority in Congress to push through health care reform. The resultant bills have been extremely long, complicated, opaque, and worst of all, expensive and ineffective at addressing the core problem; the high cost of health care in the U.S. today. In this category of articles, I seek to understand the problems, their causes, and various solutions.
Since my Congresswoman was interested enough to seek my input, I sent the following email: Dear Representative; I want to thank you for your personal and informative response to my questions regarding H.R. 3200. In your response you asked me to share my views about how to best achieve reform. It is reassuring to...
I sent a letter to my congresswoman asking for her interpretation of a few of the clauses in H.R. 3200. This is her response. I’ve added my comments inline below. Dear Mr. Shaw: Thank you for your very thoughtful questions about H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. I appreciate hearing from you...
I had a doctor’s appointment today and took the opportunity to pick my primary care physician’s brain about how he felt about health care reform. Here are the notes of what he said: - Individuals should be taking more personal responsibility for their health. - Enough with the wimps who bump their knee and...
The White House is on a mission to debunk certain myths about H.R. 3200, aka public health reform. Today on twitter (@whitehouse) they posted a link to a video (embedded below) in which Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform states that “Congress has not taken a vote to exempt itself...