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The Casualty List: The Myth of the “Just Transition” for Healthcare Workers
The article critically examines the Medicare for All initiative, highlighting the human cost of dismantling the health insurance industry, which may displace approximately 1.8 million workers. Policymakers have proposed a federally funded worker transition program to support affected employees, yet the bill lacks specific implementation details. The funding model raises concerns as it relies on…
The Scale Illusion: “Medicare for All” Is a Global Outlier
The Medicare for All Act of 2025 proposes a unique single-payer healthcare system for the U.S., aiming to consolidate coverage for approximately 340 million people under one federal program. Unlike existing universal healthcare models in countries like Canada and the U.K., this act intends to eliminate almost all out-of-pocket costs and includes comprehensive services such…
Medicare for All: A Bold Promise or a House of Cards?
The American healthcare system is broken! That’s something a majority of Americans can agree on. How to fix it does not have such strong consensus. When it comes to fixing American healthcare, few proposals have generated as much passion, or as much fierce debate, as Senator Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All. On the surface, the…
Navigating the Post-Truth Era: Balancing Facts and Feelings
Over the past century, Western societies have shifted towards valuing subjective experience in defining identity and truth, marking a significant cultural change. This advancement has led to a focus on personal narratives, creating challenges in public discourse where objective facts and shared standards struggle against competing personal realities, complicating democratic dialogue and debate.
My Pet Peeve: When Words Become Weapons
Some things just set me off Everyone has a pet peeve. Some people are irritated by slow drivers in the passing lane. Others can’t stand people who leave shopping carts in the middle of a parking lot. Mine is a little different. What bothers me is watching words lose their meaning because people find them…
The Death of the Middle Ground
Spend ten minutes on social media and you’ll quickly discover that America is angry. Conservatives are convinced progressives are destroying the country and that socialism is just around the corner. Progressives are convinced conservatives are destroying democracy and introducing Fascism to destroy our liberties. Every election is described as the most important in history. Every…
Are We Becoming Easier to Manipulate?
I recently read a study examining the relationship between literacy and voting. What caught my attention wasn’t the politics. It was the literacy. As I ready through the article I was reminded of several recent interactions on Facebook posts with people who seemed to understand the words they were reading but lacked the ability to…
Medicare for All: The Hidden Truths Uncovered
I see more and more posts with people advocating Medicare for All or some other form of single payer healthcare system in the United States. It’s a grand idea, but it just won’t work. Let me explain why.Let’s start with some core assumptions behind this debate. Medicare is not free; Medicare is often misunderstood as…
The Limits of Diversity and Tolerance
I have always thought of myself as a tolerant person and someone who values diversity. I still think of myself that way, but more and more I am seeing the limits of those concepts in our culture. Maybe you have seen it too. It leads me to ask a question: What are the limits of…
Tired of Being Misled!
“False testimony my be refuted, but once it is voiced, everyone repeats it” Proverbs 21:28 as translated by Rabbi Rami M. Shappiro Ok, so have you visited social media any time recently? Or how about have you watch the news on TV or cable? Have you read the newspaper? If the answer is yes, then…
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