Based upon his recent article in the Financial Times (“Israel must unpick its ethnic myth”), I know what Tony Judt wants for Hanukkah: The evaporation of a collective Jewish existence and the elimination of the Zionist entity — the state…
Is health care reform designed to discriminate against women? On the heels of nearly mandating a “just say no to mammograms screening” for women under 50, members of Congress remained silent about another USPSTF recommendation that women be denied access…
Think Congress is regretting having allocated over a billion dollars to let the government generate studies to tell us what medical tests and procedures should be covered under Obamacare? In the wake of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation…
Those who claim the Goldstone Report was written simply to blacken Israel’s name are missing the point. That is and can be done almost daily by directly feeding the media half truths and propaganda to use in articles that reinforce…
The Senate Finance Committee has issued a set of “talking points” about why the so-called America’s Health Future Act is good for you. Missing is any straight talk about how the bill drives up health care spending, rations care and…
Coming to a neighborhood near you: nonprofit health coops administered by ACORN designed to use state Medicaid programs to usher in single payer health care. A Tea Party conspiracy theory? Hardly. While the catfight over the cost of reform and…
Here’s Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein calling on Obama and Democrats “to stand tall” on healthcare and come up with “succinct legislation that guarantees that every American will have a basic health insurance policy and sets reasonable caps on the…
Last Saturday I was in Atlanta where I was part of what is likely to be a turning point in American politics. The event was billed as America’s Health Care Town Hall. It started with a conversation at a fast-food…
Regarding the effort to smear people who attend town hall health care meetings as anti-Semites: Have these people forgotten how MoveOn and DailyKos provided a safe haven for anti-Semites during the Lebanon war in 2006 and beyond? Here are my…