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Many readers will get this after tonight’s State of the Union, so I decided I wouldn’t talk about what I hoped and expected to hear, other than in relation to my thoughts after attending  an incredible conference yesterday.  The VerdExchange Green Marketers Conference was held for a select group of entrepreneurs, manufacturers, government officials, financial [...]

About a month ago my daughter wrote a letter to President Obama.  She had an issue that she felt he needed to know about from the perspective of a 9-year old.  So she created a well-considered rough draft of her letter, then found the right stationary, drew lines on it so that her letters would [...]

When you turn 50 that sets you up for a series of tests to see how unhealthy you are becoming.  So far I’ve had my annual physical…resting heart seems to be fine.  Waiting on the blood tests.  Mammogram fine.  Bone density…not so good.  Some calcium deterioration.  It’s called “osteopenia”.  Fun.  Still have the stress test, [...]

OK.  So healthcare reform is on the table.  For real.  At the risk of losing more subscribers, I’ll declare — I’m actually a single-payer supporter.  If you aren’t sure what that means, I support a federal health care program run by and supported by the government, providing equal access to healthcare for all.  This doesn’t [...]

On August 20th, I wrote a blog post (again) about healthcare reform.  In it, I focused on the cost of insurance for anyone not insured through their employer, or with a pre-existing condition.  One reader, Lisa Alkana, made a very good comment, on what to me, seems like a basic human right.  Her comment was [...]

You’d think the country had been built on sound-bites.  “Death Panels”, “No coverage for seniors”, “a bankrupt America”…those are words that make the headlines.  I’ve been accused of not having read the bill by readers who have also not read the bill.  Here is the section of the bill that provides for counsellors for seniors, [...]

Listening to the sound bites coming out the mouths of “regular Americans” showing up at town hall meetings to “discuss” health care reform, you’d think we lived in a society on the verge of a civil war over health care.  I’ve been watching, with great interest, the mouthy, screaming attendees, drowning out our ELECTED representatives [...]

By now, the news of  Republican Senator Jim DeMint’s comments to the GOP that defeating healthcare reform would “break” Obama is old news.  That conference call comment struck such a sad, sad chord in my heart.  The polarization of politics has absolutley trumped the welfare of the American people.  Isn’t this country supposed to be about [...]

I’m having a sleepless night and just read Ronni Bennet’s (Time Goes By) post about the new Health Care Reform legislation that is squeaking by as we speak.  What I like about Ronni is that she always backs her observations with solid references so that you can dig as deep as you’d like into the [...]

Well, I’m sure many of you aren’t shocked, but here I sit, having a coffee (de-caf) with my mother, discussing how she STILL hasn’t received any…ANY…test strips from her mail order prescription provider, Prescription Solutions.  Please refer to my post from last week, which in turn, refers you to my mother, Corinne’s blog post on [...]