In regards to the people who oppose the White House contraception insurance mandate, here’s what I say: This mandate (though “mandate” is a scary, forceful sounding word) does not, in fact, force people to take birth control. It just expands insurance coverage to include birth control, among a long list of other things beneficial for [...]
I got back from Seoul meaning to blog about my awesome birthday weekend, an amazing lunch at Culinaria, summer-camp related work drama, and other nonsense; but in the face of the mass murder in Norway, all of a sudden that stuff doesn’t seem quite that blog-worthy any more. (I’ll get back to regularly scheduled dreck [...]
What an incredible week for news! The number one most wanted man in the world is really, actually, truly dead. Because I am friends with hippies and yoga-people, most of my friends are posting this quote, attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr: I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not [...]
If you get rid of pre-existing conditions exclusions, you have to make everyone buy insurance, because rudimentary economics predicts that an insurance pool consisting of only unhealthy expensive customers will collapse. If you make everyone buy insurance, you have to provide a cheap alternative that everyone can afford: a public option. I have been avoiding [...]
