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Democrats Need to Cooperate Only When That Matters Nov. 12, 2024
On a recent CNN panel, a Republican strategist cited a random article from last June about liberals ... Read More
Trump Really Did Try to Kill Obamacare Oct. 08, 2024
Donald Trump tried to kill Obamacare. If elected to a second term, he would try to kill it again. No... Read More
For the Beneficiaries, Losing Obamacare Would Truly Suck Apr. 02, 2024
Donald Trump last week posted an item on Truth Social that broke new ground for incoherence. What go... Read More
Free Health Insurance For Migrants Is Lunacy Jan. 03, 2024
Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape p... Read More
Blame Price Controls for Fleeing Health Insurers Jun. 12, 2023
Thank Colorado's all-Democratic government for exacerbating a crisis in the health insurance market.... Read More
Don't Cripple Colorado's Health Providers Apr. 05, 2023
Legislation banning so-called "facility fees" at Colorado hospitals and clinics purports to be looki... Read More
How Remote Work Expanded My Professional Options With Chronic Illness Sep. 30, 2022
One year ago, I accepted the opinion editor position at The Courier Journal in Louisville, Kentucky.... Read More
The Market Won't Fix Obscene Insulin Prices. It's Time for Congressional Action. Jun. 24, 2022
Few issues within America's dysfunctional health care system are more pressing than the astronomical... Read More
Diabetes Patients Deserve a Break From Skyrocketing Insulin Costs Apr. 05, 2022
Diabetes patients' access to affordable insulin tends not to be among the big front-burner issues co... Read More
Obamacare Has Delivered, Over GOP Resistance. Voters Should Remember That. Feb. 03, 2022
The Affordable Care Act, which not that long ago appeared doomed by Republican determination to kill... Read More
Haste Still Makes Waste, Even for Pundits Nov. 11, 2021
"The quality of the punditry is abysmal." That's the title of an excellent letter recently shared wi... Read More
During the Pandemic, One Thing Didn't Change Nov. 03, 2021
When jobs began disappearing during the COVID-19 pandemic, it was presumed health insurance coverage... Read More
The Government Could, and Should, Save Billions on Medicare Drug Prices Oct. 13, 2021
When the Biden administration proposed allowing the federal government to negotiate Medicare drug pr... Read More
Vaccine Resistance Has Opened the Genuine Possibility of Health Care Rationing Sep. 22, 2021
A year and a half into the pandemic, the long-feared specter of rationed health care — that is... Read More
Extra Money Dilemma; Should We Buy Cancer Insurance? Jul. 22, 2021
As you know, because I tell you all the time, I get a ton of mail! Today, I reached into my virtual ... Read More
Medicare and Health Savings Accounts; Closing Credit-Card Accounts Jul. 15, 2021
Dear Mary: I'm a few months from my Medicare birthday, when I'll turn 65. I have had a high-deductib... Read More
Revenge of the Nerd: Across the Divide, Bernie Sanders Breaks Through Apr. 13, 2021
Bernie Sanders was never the most all-American of presidential candidates. The Brooklyn-born sociali... Read More
The High Price of Sitting Down Feb. 24, 2021
Health care. It's on everyone's mind these days, and for good reason. Between the soaring cost of he... Read More
When Does Insurance Make Sense? Jan. 27, 2021
Dear Readers: The question posed in the headline is a great one because insurance can be one of the ... Read More
