Is health care reform dead? Part 2

OK, so by my thinking we need an insurance mandate to reduce the ranks of the uninsured not because it’s their right or the country’s obligation but because it’s a national economic imperative in order to address a long-term financial crisis. In addition, we want to prevent our insurance companies from dropping coverage when someone [...]

Health insurer profits – really?

As you are probably aware, there is a very heated debate going on in our country over the need for health care reform. It was one of the main agendas that Barack Obama ran on and with Democrats controlling Congress, it seems a given that some sort of health care reform legislation is sure to [...]

Rape, Arbitration, and the Franken Amendment

I’m not sure how I missed this story but maybe many of you did as well. Two weeks ago Sen. Al Franken introduced an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill that would withhold defense contracts from companies like Halliburton if they forced employees into arbitration, rather than allowing criminal and civil suit, in cases [...]

Health courts – An alternative to medical malpractice lawsuits?

As the debate over how to reform our health care system rages on, there has been one part of the argument that has been largely ignored. The Republican Party has been pushing for some sort of tort reform, in an effort to curb the costs of medical malpractice suits and by proxy, lowering the cost [...]

Health Care Issues: Tort Reform

Tort reform has become a divisive issue in the health care debate. Republicans argue strenuously for the need to reform tort law and Democrats simply ignore the issue and try to sweep it under the rug. What is going on here? I knew very little about the issue beyond the basics so I decided to [...]