Health Care Wedge
Posted by Ann Cantelow - March 24, 2010 at 6:35 am
The passing of health care bill was heartening indeed. As many are saying, we who wanted insurance reform change have got our foot in the door now.
I think this thing will progress much faster towards public option than many have thought. Especially the pre-existing conditions provisions look to me like a wedge that will pretty quickly throw the whole thing open.
Like the deal with medical marijuana. Legal marijuana for medical use is a very leaky dike. Very soon, the universal legalization dam will burst, and the decriminalization that so many have wished for will be here, and accepted as part of everyday life.
The Drug War: Trading Lives
Posted by Ann Cantelow - January 2, 2010 at 8:35 am
Perhaps today a small child ran into misfortune. There may have been a drug-related shootout in her neighborhood that spilled over and took her life. Maybe her brother, in poverty, had wanted so badly to help the family that he got involved in drug trading, and a local branch of an organized crime group had decided he wasn't serving them correctly. Or maybe, her parents were in an organized crime group, or her aunt or uncle were.
Death and Innocence
Posted by Ann Cantelow - December 28, 2009 at 9:22 am
In musing on events of 2009, my thoughts contain some intensity.
There was an incident a few months back where someone attempted to kill my husband, but failed. All is well now, but fallout hangs around for a while, reverberating. The sensitive human organism needs to recover from something like that.
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