Last Sunday the Philadelphia Eagles lost to the Green Bay Packers. At one point during the game, Eagles Linebacker Stewart Bradley flew in for a tackle and slammed his head against the hip of a teammate. Bradley got up slowly, obviously dizzy, took a few steps forward, and fell back to the ground. He called for teammates to help him up, but the trainers got there first, checked him out, and helped him off the field. Five minutes later, Bradley was back on the field, although he lasted only a few more plays before being sent to the bench for the rest of the game. After the game, it was announced that Bradley had suffered a concussion, and he has not yet been cleared to practice or rejoin the team.
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Mar 262010
In his comments about the health legislation the other day, Doc made a very good point: the recent health care bill really doesn’t reform health care, it reforms health insurance. In particular, the bill does very little to directly address the spiraling costs of health care. Obviously that should be the next step in the reform process, although it begs a question: why are health care costs so high?
As far as I can tell, there are really four causes of the high health care costs in this country. I have no idea which one of these is the primary culprit; I’ll let you make up your own minds.
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1) The New York Times webpage has some very nice information about the bill here and here. You should check those out to see how the law is changing and how it might effect you.
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A commentator on this site Blue Foot, just posed a really interesting question that I thought I would take a shot at answering. But the answer got long, so I thought I’d put it in a post instead of a comment. The question was:
“So what’s the path to small government?”
So I’m pretty liberal and don’t particularly think that smaller government is the answer. But as a hypothetical question, I find it fascinating. So allow me to give all of my more conservative brethren some advice.
First off, conservatives need to keep in mind four basic facts about the American Government:
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Nov 232009
The Republican Party is holding their national meeting this winter. This is standard fare for both parties, and these meetings are generally taken up by electing and appointing various people, tweaking the platform in small ways, and generally being an excuse for party leaders to get together and schmooze each other once in awhile.
A group of Republicans, however, just threw a bombshell into their own meeting. Here is a text of a resolution that just met the minimum requirement (signed by the chairperson from ten states) to be debated and voted on at this years convention:
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