Two years ago this Blog started with an angry title "Deregulate This!" It was a time of great anxiety and collapse. With war, recession, deficits, and despair. This week, after long months of turbulence and disagreement in the halls of government, we have an answer to one of the most urgent national issues of the last six decades. Namely, "What about the lack of access and the inequities of healthcare in America?" Congress has just passed, and the President today has signed, the Health Care Reform Act of 2010.
Other vital issues are still on the table. Financial Reform, Immigration, Unemployment, Energy and Climate. But we can hear again the voices from the 2008 Presidential Campaign. "Yes, we can!"
Action finally has been taken. We have remembered how to solve difficult problems. And so I have decided to change the name of this Blog to "Reregulate This!" Smart governmental regulations, fairly applied, can begin again to restore some faith in our future.
Showing posts with label Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reform. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
What Are We Waiting For? Reform and Regulate.
In the depths of our Great Recession 2007-2010, it has become clear that the financial markets are not self correcting, as past Federal Reserve Chairmen believed.
Numerous jobs are being eliminated, permanently. With the terminated jobs, health coverage and housing are threatened.
Any elderly person who tried to find a drug plan with Part D of Medicare since 2003 has had to wonder at the crazy "doughnut hole" that cut out payments for drugs at one level and then reinstated them at a higher level when the costs in a year became very high. This costly addition to medicare was rammed through Congress in the middle of the night, with voting held open for three hours until arm twisting was completed. And this was six years ago!
Financial market reform is called for: regulate the hedge funds, ban the credit default swaps and securitized mortgage loans, eliminate sub-prime lending and the so-called mortgage brokers outside of the banking industry.
Health care reform is long overdue: remove the cap on benefits, don't allow cherry-picking of the healthiest and disqualifying someone with a "condition."
A strong majority of us voted in 2008 for a different course in our nation's direction. Where is the outrage? Outrage at the delays after three quarters, and at the political nonsense that parades across our TV screens and interrupts sensible debate in town halls across the country and now even in the halls of Congress.
It is time to overturn the frozen status quo - of government of the money, by the money, and for the money!
Numerous jobs are being eliminated, permanently. With the terminated jobs, health coverage and housing are threatened.
Any elderly person who tried to find a drug plan with Part D of Medicare since 2003 has had to wonder at the crazy "doughnut hole" that cut out payments for drugs at one level and then reinstated them at a higher level when the costs in a year became very high. This costly addition to medicare was rammed through Congress in the middle of the night, with voting held open for three hours until arm twisting was completed. And this was six years ago!
Financial market reform is called for: regulate the hedge funds, ban the credit default swaps and securitized mortgage loans, eliminate sub-prime lending and the so-called mortgage brokers outside of the banking industry.
Health care reform is long overdue: remove the cap on benefits, don't allow cherry-picking of the healthiest and disqualifying someone with a "condition."
A strong majority of us voted in 2008 for a different course in our nation's direction. Where is the outrage? Outrage at the delays after three quarters, and at the political nonsense that parades across our TV screens and interrupts sensible debate in town halls across the country and now even in the halls of Congress.
It is time to overturn the frozen status quo - of government of the money, by the money, and for the money!
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