The VA is one that most people know about; its flaws and deficiencies are legendary. But the US also runs the Indian Health Service for Native Americans. It's a disaster and has long been so, compounding Native Americans health miseries. These examples should not inspire confidence in a national government health plan. KevinMD makes the point.
November 2009
- Twitter Shroudedindoubt
Reaction on the fly and announcements of blog articles
My Blogs
- Eighty-Seven Acres
Farming in West Virginia - Bag of Worms Yet Words
Philosophical discussion about values - Skin and Bones
My creative interests - Body Parts
Ruminations and rants about my life and times
Start Parts
- Preface to a Personal 1960s Journal
The making of a radical mind - Introduction to My 1980s Journal
Reflections on my life as I enter middle age - What My Body Parts Blog Is About
Returning through doubt to the faith of my forefathers
Parts of Interest
- Obama, Marxist (17 articles)
Links to my articles discussing Obama's ideological commitments. - Most Influential Books (2 articles)
One list from 1980, one from 2009. - A Primer on America's Economic Crisis (5 articles)
It's not just housing and the banking system. - Life's Illusions (5 articles)
Sex, movies, politics, family life, and cancer - Can There Be A False Religion? (4 articles)
A framework for evaluating Islam's claim to be a religion - The Causes of Obesity (4 articles)
What is obesity, what causes it, is it lack of exercise, whose fault? - Issues of Medicine and Insurance (5 articles)
How to solve California's and America's medical care and cost crisis - President Bush, an Evening at the Coffee Depot, the Homeless Drunk Man
Forgiveness - 9-11 Christmas Letter
To friends and family in December 2001 - Why Have Children?
Some people need convincing - Preparing to Die (3 articles)
How can we prepare? - This Objectionable Man
I am an objectionable person - When Is Death Not Pointless?
Death in combat is not pointless - Military Service
What being classified 4F did to my views of war - Friendship (2 articles)
Friendship is not what most people think it is--or want it to be. - My First Time
Yes, my first time for that - Burdens of Women (3 articles)
Caretaking, pregnancy, men - Thinking About Abortion (7 articles)
Why women get abortions; devaluing women; influence of men; family formation, my girl friend's abortion
From My 1980s Journal
- Oh California! (9 articles)
How God Answered My Prayer - Politics Is A Window (7 articles)
Politics by an observer - Failing at Faith (3 articles)
Faith cannot be forced into the child - Making My Mind (17 articles)
Path of Discovey of Intellectual Life - Lessons in Love Before the Pill (7 articles)
Love and sex when growing up in the 1950s and '60s
Recent Posts
- Another Big US Company Downsizes
- You're not Alone in Thinking and Feeling as You Do, Caroline
- ObamaCare Will Subsidize Middle-Class Lifestyle, Not Middle-Class Health Care
- We Are Going to Get Socialized Medicine
- Fort Hood Massacre Was Not A "Tragedy"
- Hasan Attended Mosque of Radical Imam at Same Time as Two of 9-11 Terrorists
- "Bringing Michael Home"
- Chugging Along To A Record
- Obama's Muslim Identity
- Major Hasan's Suicide Mission Against the Enemies of Islam: He Had Long Been A Jihadist
2.3 Miles Walk Route
- A Black Anglo Latino middle-class neighborhood
4.2 Miles Running Route
- Panoramas and details
Bear
- My wife says that "Bear" is my grandchild.
Brooklyn
- Streets, Homes, Neighborhoods
Brooklyn Botanical Garden
- Autumn Day in Public Urban Gardens
Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza
- Inspiring civic monument at Prospect Park.
Brooklyn Midwood
- Avenue M, Midwood, Brooklyn, on the Sabbath.
Crown Jewels
- Wonderful young people from our neighborhood.
Domestic Flowers
- Flowers in our neighborhood's street-side gardens cultivated by women.
Manhattan
- The personal and human-scale settings of the city.
Murrah Memorial
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Now Villages
- Village neighborhoods in Sprawling Suburb.
Pepper Tree
- An old pepper tree, with character in its detail and complexity.
Reliquary
- The author's baby and childhood photos in Faraway Village.
Re-Piping
- Re-piping our 1928 house.
Seattle
- Sunlight and Sight Lines
Shrouded
- Shrouds may cover, yet reveal and set forth.
World Trade Center Site
- Engaging Ground Zero, confronting painful memories.
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