Two months ago, I sent a note to my congressman, George Radanovich (California’s 19th Congressional District), asking him about his impending vote on the Health Care Reform bill. Today, I received a message from him. Here it is, with my response to him…

” Dear Friend:

Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. I appreciate hearing your thoughts and concerns… Continue reading

Earlier today, a small business owner friend of mine sent me this message:

“Glad to see you are blogging again. I don’t know much at all about the new health care bill, but based on what I learned the other day on a restaurant focused webinar this is what I think: You, a self-employed business owner without employees are probably winners. We, having less than 50 full-time employees, with… Continue reading

10 THINGS EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM

1. Once reform is fully implemented, over 95% of Americans will have health insurance coverage, including 32 million who are currently uninsured.2

2. Health insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny people coverage because of preexisting conditions—or to drop coverage when people become sick.3

3. Just like members of Congress, individuals and small businesses who can’t afford to… Continue reading

On Wednesday, at a town hall meeting in Chickasha, Oklahoma, Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) told his audience that he was not going to read America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (H.R.3200): “I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it. I’m going to oppose it anyways.”

“I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it”? Yes, Senator, you have to know… Continue reading

If you live in the United States, you probably know someone, or of someone, in a similar situation. Reforming health care is not about socialism, not about bigger government or even about freedom; it’s about having access to health care whatever your means may be. No health care system is perfect; not even in other industrialized countries where access to medical care is a right; but in no industrialized country is… Continue reading