As I was talking recently with the founder of a large American corporation, the conversation turned (inevitably) to health care reform. His employees in their 20s, on average, cost the company about $1,500 a year in health bills. Those in their 50s cost at least 10 times more. The effect of proposed health care reform - which limits the ability of insurers to charge higher premiums for older adults - would be, he said, a large shift of America's health care burden to the younger generation. ...more

November 4, 2009

I read the letters where the Constitution is used to make ones personal point, bent to fit their views. It is a good document in which our government should be run, but too many years have passed for it to now be absolute. If we want to go back to that time in history then we must remember that many of the writers owned slaves. There were indebted persons and a poor house in which to be jailed. Women of the time were only good to have children and keep the house. The writers could not have foreseen all the advances that have been made in our country; if they could some of the text might have been written differently. ...more

November 1, 2009

Big Insurance, with its excessive profiteering and exploitation has shown itself a cruel and inhumane master and should no longer be allowed to exclusively administer America's health care. ...more

October 30, 2009

Florida's effort to harden homes against hurricane loss is a smart policy, but, so far, it also has been a flawed one. It's time to adopt sensible reforms. ...more

October 28, 2009

It has become obvious to all that the "free market" is not free for people who need health care. It is free for insurance companies to gouge, control and manipulate the users so that the companies don't have to pay and are assured a profit. This system is not working for the American people. I could list problems such as: ...more

October 25, 2009

Florida's public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple's Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling the homeowners their policy wouldn't be renewed because of the home's tainted drywall from China. ...more

October 24, 2009

Home sales to kin First-time Homebuyers: Heads up! Read about the tax credit of $8,000 before you buy the house. Not many buyers know that you cannot buy from a relative and receive the tax credit. ...more

October 21, 2009

President Obama's plan will simply make insurance work better by holding the insurance industry accountable. Under the president's plan, it will be against the law for insurance companies to: ...more

October 6, 2009

Where were the tea baggers when President Reagan tripled the national debt? (Baggers consider him God-like.) ...more

September 23, 2009

If we are indeed a Christian nation like so many of you say, shouldn't we start acting like it? The Lord isn't a partisan, the Lord doesn't care if our government is big or small, and the Lord certainly does not care for the current system of national health care and big insurance companies. What He does care about is how we treat and take care of each other. ...more

September 20, 2009