Today at Obama’s Health Care Summit at the White House Senator Ted Kennedy who doesn’t appear to be ailing, declared that this time ’we will not fail’ at achieving health care reform/universal health care for all Americans. It seems Sir Ted is ready for a fight. Brain tum...

The only thing universal about it is that we’d all be equally screwed: Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs. The Government’s rationing body said two drugs for advanced breast cancer and a rar...

Throughout the campaign, Obama said he was going to increase taxes on the wealthiest Americans. That made John McCain and the rest of the Republicans apoplectic. They thought the tax increase on the rich would surely result in an Obama loss. But, Obama won -- and he's following through on his campai...

Health Care     The health care system here in the United States lags behind a lot of other countries and is light years ahead of others. Our system is not completely broke it is however flawed. It does not work for everyone and that is the biggest flaw in it. When something is broke or not workin...

Wouldn't that be fantastic? When I watched my father being treated for cancer it became clear to me that many doctors subscribe to the "more is better" theory, results be damned. As you might expect, many oncologists also receive money for the chemotherapy drugs they prescribe despite the clear appe...

When Skeptical Brotha regular Zeitgiest9000 posted yesterday that the Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder is reporting that the Obama Administration is vetting Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen for Secretary of Health and Human Services, my head exploded. I damn near stroked out, y’all. A diehard Hillarycra...

Among the 11 Democratic votes against the stimulus plan was Jim Cooper's (DINO-TN). How's this for loyalty? Special "F. You" Note: To Blue Dog Jim Cooper (D-TN-05), who back in December extracted from the Obama team the promise of the convening of a "fiscal responsibility summit," which he wanted to...

Hello and Happy New Year!  I know I took an unexpected blogging hiatus, and while I did plan on taking a small break through Christmas, the rest was, well, unfortunately not how I thought things would go down. I’ll come to talk about things soon enough, but for now I want to concentrate on ge...

Yes, it's going to be expensive. Yes, it's going to take a long time. It's going to be both because US doctors have been living in the stone ages for decades and have successfully pushed back modernization for so long. In order to build a national health care solution these first steps must be taken...

Don't be shy and share your story here. The most recent terrible-yet-all-too-common story that I heard is a friend of a friend who was being laid off from his job and his wife was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. When I tell people here in France, they can't remotely imagine being thrown to th...