A postdoc by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his research in protein structure and function get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
I recently had the pleasure of writing an op-ed piece about health care reform for my hometown newspaper, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and it ran in the paper today. You can check it out online here. I grew up reading the Star-Telegram, so this was an exciting opportunity.
My article discusses the need for robust health care reform in the form of a strong public option, comparing and contrasting my health care experiences in the US and the UK to build my case. For regular readers of my blog, you will note that this is a theme I have often explored.
I would have preferred that the Star-Telegram ran this with the title I suggested (given above as the title of this blog post), which I think most precisely conveys the meaning of the rest of the article. (My point is not necessarily that health care reform would cut down wait times, but that it would reduce the time individuals waste dealing with health care administration in general.) But, that is only a minor complaint; overall this was a very enjoyable experience, and I had a good back-and-forth discussion with the opinion editor, J.R. Labbe, in the run-up to publication.
So, go check it out!
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You couldn't be more right. Any public option would be better than nothing at this point. The entire debate has become a corporate scheme and it is sick. It is the reason the US continues to slip down the World Health Organization scale, recently awarded as #37.
http://www.ourblook.com/component/option,com_sectionex/Itemid,200076/id,8/view,category/#catid107
Holding onto a model of health care that asks for money, but doesn't necessarily guarantee services is unethical. We are country founded on ideals and ethics. Where are they now, as lobbyists rally to silence our politicians one by one into submission.
Posted by: J Maguire | October 13, 2009 3:49 PM
Good article ... the amount of red tape in the current health care system is unbelievable, and yet there are still many who argue against the public option because they think that government will necessarily be even more inefficient.
As we all know, in the last day or so the government option is being resurrected. I think the compromise of allowing states to opt out is fine, because I think these states that decide to opt out will be carefully watching the results of states that do not opt out, and if those results are good then in time many more will follow in their path.
Posted by: memory foam | October 24, 2009 11:53 PM