BackboneAmerica

The revelation that Colorado Governor Ritter is conspiring with the Colorado Hospital Association to levy fees on hospitals (more…)

PART ONE: DO IT FOR THE KIDS… Very soon, in keeping with Obama’s campaign promises and in retaliation for two Bush vetoes (more…)

After a bit more than a month away from the partisan battles, I’m back in my blogger chair. I’ve had a chance to ruminate (more…)

Health care and its rising costs, and declining availability, have become issues, and on this score McCain’s proposals are superior (more…)

(Denver Post, Sept. 7) Quick, who was Henry Cabbage Cod? Oops, I mean Henry Cabot Lodge. Who were Bill Miller and Sarge Shriver? Ed Muskie and Lloyd Bentsen? All were losing vice-presidential candidates of the past half-century, the first two Republicans, the others Democrats. Go to the head of the class if you knew that. Most people wouldn’t know or care. Outside the Beltway, there’s general agreement that the vice-presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm, uh, spit, as Jack Garner, VP under FDR, memorably put it. This year we have Sarah Palin the terrific versus Joe Biden the soporific. Their debate will be a doozy. But after November, one will become a historical footnote (more…)

The problems with our health care system stem not from too many market forces, but from too little. (more…)