Stupid is as stupid does.

Tort reform would lower health care costs exactly 1/10 of  1%. Before you go spouting off talking points of your favorite scary politician, do some research! Without medical malpractice suits, you'd have more predator doctors harming patients at alarming rates. Medicare's payment policy is the problem. Fee for service ...more

As the 'child' who administered my mother's final dose of liquid morphine to end her suffering I can say with all certainty that without our hospice nurses my mother would have suffered a great deal by being kept in a nursing home with no dignity. Her final months were spent at home with a full time care giver and a pa...more

This is why we need to socialize medicine. As long as we have for profit health care solutions the costs will only continue to rise. The PPACA will reduce costs, contrary to what the author suggests through compelling insurance companies to better manage health care rather than expending their profits on bonuses for ki...more

You can only blame yourself if you voted for Reagan. This entire financial crisis and the laws that allowed the banks and Wall Street to steal our wealth from us all orginated with him.

Oh Penny, when the politicians talk about 'entitlements' they're talking about your SS and Medicare. Those are the programs the GOP has been trying to eliminate since they were enacted 70 years ago. I think you're more upset with the corporate welfare that the corporations have purchased for themselves by buying up all...more

You clearly have o idea what you're talking about. There are no people who never worked collecting benefits unless they are minors with severe disabilities. But of course people like you believe that those who are unable should die on the streets....just not on your street, right?

SS was intended to be an insurance policy against poverty  among the elderly. Most of us pay for insurance that we never use.

There is one problem with the SS safety net that is never discussed. The parents of us baby boomers went to work for the corporations and stayed put because their loyalty was then rewarded with a defined benefit pension plan which included health insurance benefits. Under Reagan those pension plans were eliminated for ...more