While the outcome of Tuesday night’s gubernatorial election in Kentucky was not expected, the reaction from much of the national media and the Democratic faithful has been regrettably predictable. In the wake of Tea Party darling Matt Bevin’s sound thumping… Read More ›
Medicaid expansion
The State Mental Health “Diagnose & Dash”
On the outskirts of downtown Traverse City, Michigan, just beyond the northern tourist bustle of Front Street but before reaching the vast expanse of shopping centers and strip malls that serve as the consumer mecca for the smattering of towns… Read More ›
Medicaid! Get Your Ice Cold, Completely Free Medicaid Here!
All too often, I find myself spending my days meticulously deconstructing the criminally duplicitous arguments of politicians and public figures whom I dislike instead of searching for the kernel of goodness that lies within each and every one of them… Read More ›
The Deep South: Geography as a Risk Factor
Red America forms a thick, inland L in the flat midsection of our country, bordered as much by geography as by political preference. The Rocky Mountains and Mississippi River shepherd the younger constituents of this conservative nation-within-a-nation down towards the… Read More ›
Political Unity Through HIV
If one puts much stock in the old axiom that says “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” it would be safe to conclude that we as a nation have lying on the canvas for the past half century or… Read More ›
New Reform to be Referred to as “Obamacare with a Side of Roberts”
People, I’m not going to think about the striking down of Medicaid expansion and the fact that the state of Alabama will continue spend more money on Roll Tide banners than healthcare. That’s for tomorrow. Today…we must just be grateful… Read More ›