Health Care Debate: News Clip
Put forth on August 28, 2009 by XicanoPwr
Posted in Health Care
Today is my birthday, and well, I get to be lazy today. 
Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business
Gary Locke – Wall Street Journal
You have probably heard the horror stories about President Barack Obama’s health-care proposals leading to rationed care and bankrupt businesses and governments. Those claims are flat wrong. The real horror story is not what health-care reform will bring. It’s what’s already happening.
There has been a lot of talk about the 47 million Americans who do not have health insurance. But health-care reform is just as important to the majority of Americans who have health insurance now. Absent reform, the price of an average family’s insurance will nearly double over the next decade—to $25,000 from $13,000.
No less troubling are the stories I hear from CEOs, entrepreneurs and workers. Rising health-care costs are crushing American companies—particularly small businesses that are the source of much of our economic vitality.
Health Care Reform Now
Felton Newell – Huffington Post
As teachers and principals shake the cobwebs off of our national education system in the weeks to come, there will be a new concern to accompany the normal anxieties about students, lesson plans and classrooms. After a summer in which many overnight children’s camps were plagued by H1N1 flu infections, schools across the country are preparing contingency plans in case the highly contagious virus hits their campuses. While 700 schools closed across the nation when the virus first hit this spring, schools now are planning to stay open by quarantining the sick as soon as they are afflicted since the virus can be highly treatable, especially when it is caught early.
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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