In case you missed it, Healthcare reform turned a year old last week, and its conundrum continues--as evidenced by these three pieces, all featured on the same day in the Free Press. Sister Mary Ellen Howard, in a guest column, says we should not deny the benefits that the reforms have given us, like stopping insurance companies from deciding whether you live or die (or end up in bankruptcy court) and extending benefits to the millions without health insurance. Rep. John Dingell, the Michigan dean of the U. S. House, says it helps out seniors with doughnut hole gaps in their prescription coverage, allows young people to stay on their parents coverage until age 26, wipes out pre-existing condition limitations, and will cut our deficit. And James Oliphant, in his "analysis," while trying to play the traditional media game of giving both sides of the debate equal airing, repeats numerous republican falsehoods without supporting proof and basically turns it into a political question, rather than a bettering human welfare issue.
Methinks I need to read a whole hell of a lot less of traditional media "analysis"....
Peace,
emaycee
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